#honesty

"Some of the most polished ideas are discovered through healthy, honest debate, so if you don't argue with yourself every once in a while, other people will gladly point out that you missed a spot."

"They'll say you are bador perhaps you are mador at least you should stay undercover.Your mind must be bareif you would dareto think you can love more than one lover."

"The single best thing about coming out of the closet is that nobody can insult you by telling you what you've just told them."

"Don't change your mind just because people are offended; change your mind if you're wrong."

"I'm not mean, I'm honest. Nobody is ever straightforward. But sometimes people need to hear the truth."

"Blunders, no, only friendship binds us to honesty - attracting crypts of mushrooms in the wake of our snowboards."

"We must not allow our pride to be the motivation behind our apologetics; rather, philoverity, the love of truth must be the full and complete motivation. For pride corrupts truth."

"You never know who you're inspiring or uninspiring. People notice more than you think."

"The simple step of a courageous individual is not to take part in the lie. "One word of truth outweighs the world."

"She says he says, but she could be lying to me, and he could be lying to her, so I can’t believe her, even if I could believe her."

"Humor, humility, and, of course, honesty, all are qualities that work in public and cultural diplomacy."

"I suppose it’s not a social norm, and not a manly thing to do — to feel, discuss feelings. So that’s what I’m giving the finger to. Social norms and stuff…what good are social norms, really? I think all they do is project a limited and harmful image of people. It thus impedes a broader social acceptance of what someone, or a group of people, might actually be like."

"We have to endure the discordance between imagination and fact. It is better to say, “I am suffering,” than to say, “This landscape is ugly."

"A fit, healthy body—that is the best fashion statement"

"The truth may not set you free, but used carefully, it can confuse the hell out of your enemies."

"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."

"Was it necessary to tell me that you wanted nothing in the world but me?'The corners of his mouth drooped peevishly.Oh, my dear, it's rather hard to take quite literally the things a man says when he's in love with you.'Didn't you mean them?'At the moment."

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

"To make a deliberate falsification for personal gain is the last, worst depth to which either scholar or artist can descend in work or life.(Letter to Muriel St. Clare Byrne, 8 September 1935)"

"Please, touch me, I pray."