When in doubt, tell the truth.

Speak not, but what may benefit others or yourself; avoid trifling conversation.

When one remains silent in the face of oppression, one is on the side of the oppressor.

A fool contributes nothing worth hearing and takes offense to everything.

Where words fail, music speaks.

Madness does not govern a country; discussion does.

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

Opportunities don’t often come along. So, when they do, you have to grab them.

The brave person thinks of themselves last of all.

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.

No man will ever bring out the Presidency the reputation which carries him into it.

If you know the enemy and know yourself you need not fear the results of a hundred battles.

To make a contented slave it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is necessary to darken the moral and mental vision and, as far as possible, to annihilate the power of reason.

From this arises the question whether it is better to be loved rather than feared, or feared rather than loved. It might perhaps be answered that we should wish to be both: but since love and fear can hardly exist together, if we must choose between them, it is far safer to be feared than loved.

Should I keep back my opinions at such a time, through fear of giving offense, I should consider myself as guilty of treason towards my country, and of an act of disloyalty toward the Majesty of Heaven, which I revere above all earthly kings.

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.

He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.

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

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.

Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If all people all over the world would do this, it would change the earth.

The quick pain of truth can pass away, but the slow eating agony of a lie is never lost.

Without the assistance of that Divine Being who ever attended him, I cannot succeed. With that assistance I cannot fail. Trusting in Him who can go with me, and remain with you, and be everywhere for good, let us confidently hope that all will yet be well.

No, I don’t understand my husbands theory of relativity, but I know my husband and I know he can be trusted.

Trust yourself. You know more than you think you do.

We signal that good can be achieved amongst human beings who are prepared to trust, prepared to believe in the goodness of people.

Every kind of peaceful cooperation among men is primarily based on mutual trust and only secondarily on institutions such as courts of justice and police.

He who does not trust enough, will not be trusted.

If you can't find the truth right where you are, where else do you think you will find it.

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.”

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

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.

I propose to raise a revolution against the lie that the majority has the monopoly of the truth.

We know how to speak many falsehoods which resemble real things, but we know, when we will, how to speak true things.

There is no disguise which can for long conceal love where it exists or simulate it where it does not.

All fixed set patterns are incapable of adaptability or pliability. The truth is outside of all fixed patterns.

If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.

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

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.