People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built.

It wasn't until late in life that I discovered how easy it is to say "I don't know."

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.

If it is any use to know it, I always try to write on the principle of the iceberg. There is seven-eighths of it under water for every part that shows.

I hope I shall possess firmness and virtue enough to maintain what I consider the most enviable of all titles, the character of an honest man.

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

There is nothing more difficult to take in hand, more perilous to conduct, or more uncertain in its success, than to take the lead in the induction of a new order of things.

I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it—but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.

Without courage, we cannot practice any other virtue with consistency. We can't be kind, true, merciful, generous, or honest.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work, there are no limits.

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.

Here must all distrust be left behind; all cowardice must be ended.

No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself, and another to the multitude, without finally getting bewildered as to which may be true.

And then she understood the devilish cunning of the enemies’ plan. By mixing a little truth with it they had made their lie far stronger.

Confidence…thrives on honesty, on honor, on the sacredness of obligations, on faithful protection and on unselfish performance. Without them it cannot live.

I have met men who are habitual liars. They have lied so long that they no longer can distinguish between the truth and a lie. Their sensitivity to sin has been almost completely deadened.

People all over the nation are starved for honesty and common sense.