If you don’t want to slip up tomorrow, speak the truth today.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others, than you can by what others say about him!

Lie to a liar, for lies are his coin; steal from a thief, for that is easy; lay a trap for a trickster and catch him at first attempt, but beware of an honest man.

Men show their characters in nothing more clearly than in what they think laughable.

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.

Moral courage is the most valuable and usually the most absent characteristics in men.

I am a true laborer: I earn that I eat, get that I wear, owe no man hate, envy no man’s happiness, glad of other men’s good, content with my harm.

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

The victory of success is half won when one gains the habit of setting and achieving goals.

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.

The way you habitually think will determine your destiny.

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

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.

A thief is a man in need. A liar is a man in fear.

Many people resented my impatience and honesty, but I never cared about acceptance as much as I cared about respect.

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.

The hero of my tale, whom I love with all the power of my soul, whom I have tried to portray in all his beauty, who has been, is, and will be beautiful, is Truth.

Never was a government that was not composed of liars, malefactors and thieves.

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

The greatest kindness one can render to any man is leading him to truth.

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

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

Truly, to tell lies is not honorable; but when the truth entails tremendous ruin, to speak dishonorably is pardonable.

And if all others accepted the lie which the Party imposed—if all records told the same tale—then the lie passed into history and became truth.

It is difficult to free fools from the chains they revere.

It was not the truth they wanted, but an illusion they could bear to live with.