#honesty

"I'd rather have cancer than a dishonest heart. Which isn't being pious. Just practical. Cancer may cool you, but the other's sure to."

"Your words will either give you joy or give you sorrow, but if they were spoken without regret, they give you peace."

"I just think if you don't say the honest thing, sometimes the honest thing never becomes true, you know, and I-"

"To love someone with all of your heart requires reaching them where they are with the only words they can understand."

"The problem with today’s world is that everyone believes they have the right to express their opinion AND have others listen to it. The correct statement of individual rights is that everyone has the right to an opinion, but crucially, that opinion can be roundly ignored and even made fun of, particularly if it is demonstrably nonsense!"

"I felt like an animal, and animals don’t know sin, do they?"

"What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life?The world would split open."

"Truth never damages a cause that is just."

"Most often people seek in life occasions for persisting in their opinions rather than for educating themselves."

"Stop lying to yourself. When we deny our own truth, we deny our own potential."

"You should spend more time reading the Good Book and less reading all those novels. What are you going to tell the Lord on Judgement Day when He asks you why you didn't read your bible? Hmm?"I will tell Him that His press agents could have done with a writing lesson or two, I said. To myself."

"Confidence in others' honesty is no light testimony of one's own integrity."

"For my part, whatever anguish of spirit it may cost, I am willing to know the whole truth; to know the worst and to provide for it."

"When I touched her body,I believed she was God.In the curves of her formI found the birth of Man,the creation of the world,and the origin of all life."

"What have I always believed?That on the whole, and by and large, if a man lived properly, not according to what any priests said, but according to what seemed decent and honest inside, then it would, at the end, more or less, turn out all right."

"One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth."

"Without honesty and integrity, success is nothing but a terrible failure."

"Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad."

"No, I don't think I could fall in love with him, handsome though he is, because I don't accept any of that huff he gives me about my great beauty and all that. I'd have to trust a man's words before I could love him. I think."

"Never allow your ego to diminish your ability to listen."