Be true to your work, your word, and your friend.

I lay it down as a fact that if all men knew what others say of them, there would not be four friends in the world.

How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height my soul can reach, when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and ideal grace.

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

There are three great friends: an old wife, and old dog, and ready money.

The first method of estimating the intelligence of a ruler is to look at the men he has around him.

Friends accept you the way you are.

But what is happiness except for the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads.

Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.

All men make mistakes, but a good man yields when he knows he knows his course is wrong and repairs the evil. The only crime is pride.

If you are ever tempted to look for outside approval, realize that you have compromised your own integrity. If you need a witness, be your own.

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.

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

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.

Only when we realize that there is no eternal, unchanging truth or absolute truth can we arouse in ourselves a sense of intellectual responsibility.

Everything you said should be true but not everything true should be said.

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

Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.

You assist an evil system most effectively by obeying its orders and decrees. An evil system never deserves such allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil. A good person will resist an evil system with his or her whole soul.

Early in life I have noticed that no event is ever correctly reported in a newspaper, but in Spain, for the first time, I saw newspaper reports which did not bear any relation to the facts, not even the relationship which is implied in an ordinary lie. I saw great battles reported where there had been no fighting, and complete silence where hundreds of men had been killed. I saw troops who had fought bravely denounced as cowards and traitors, and others who had never seen a shot fired hailed as heroes of imaginary victories; and I saw newspapers in London retailing these lies and eager intellectuals building emotional superstructures over events that never happened. I saw, in fact, history being written not in terms of what happened but of what ought to have happened according to various “party lines.”

It’s not when you realize that nothing can help you—religion, pride, anything—it’s when you realize that you don’t need any aid.

Think enthusiastically about everything; but especially about your job. If you do, you'll put a torch of glory in your life. If you love your job with enthusiasm, you'll shake it to pieces. You'll love it into greatness, you'll upgrade it, you'll fill it with prestige and power.

Do your work with your whole heart, and you will succeed—there's so little competition.

Be patient with yourself. Self-growth is tender; it’s holy ground. There’s no greater investment.