He who permits himself to tell a lie once, finds it much easier to do it the second time.

One can acquire everything in solitude—except character.

A fair character is a fair fortune.

We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. This may well be mankind's last chance between chaos and community.

Sow a thought, and you reap an act; Sow an act, and you reap a habit; Sow a habit, and you reap character; Sow a character, and you reap a destiny.

Let me give you a tip on a clue to men’s characters: the man who damns money has obtained it dishonorably; the man who respects it has earned it.

Duty, honor, country. Those three hallowed words dictate what you ought to be, what you can be, what you will be.

It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit.

Feeling sorry for yourself, and your present condition, is not only a waste of energy but the worst habit you could possibly have.

A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''success consciousness'' which, in turn, creates a vigorous and ever-increasing ''habit of success.''

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

Nothing can now be believed which is seen in the newspaper. Truth itself becomes suspicious by being put into that polluted vehicle.

People think that a liar gains a victory over his victim. What I've learned is that a lie is an act of self-abdication, because one surrenders one's reality to the person to whom one lies, making that person one's master, condemning oneself from then on to faking the sort of reality that person's view requires to be faked.

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.

Amid the seeming confusion of our mysterious world, individuals are so nicely adjusted to a system, and systems to one another and to a whole, that, by stepping aside for a moment, a man exposes himself to a fearful risk of losing his place forever.

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

No matter how big the lie; repeat it often enough and the masses will regard it as the truth.

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.

I’m not perfect. And who knows how many times I’ve fallen short. We all fall short. That’s the amazing thing about the grace of God.

The liar is no better than the thief, and if his mendacity takes the form of slander he may be worse than most thieves. It puts a premium upon knavery untruthfully to attack an honest man, or even with hysterical exaggeration to assail a bad man with untruth.

Let us affirm what seems to be the truth, that, whether one is or is not, one and the others in relation to themselves and one another, all of them, in every way, are and are not, and appear to be and appear not to be.

Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable.

But truth is hard as adamant and tender as a blossom.

There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic.

Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being.

No man should be angry with what is true.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.