In matters of truth the fact that you don’t want to publish something is, nine times out of ten, a proof that you ought to publish it.

If you want to have sustained joy, you have to not only make sure that you think right, but you also have to make decisions now that are going to guarantee some joy in the future.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one.

Of two evils, choose neither.

The spread of online information isn’t just good for charities. It’s also good for donors. You can go to a site like Charity Navigator, which evaluates nonprofits on their financial health as well as the amount of information they share about their work.

The time has come for all evangelists to practice full financial disclosure. The world is watching how we walk and how we talk. We must have the highest standards of morality, ethics and integrity if we are to continue to have influence.

The jury consist of twelve persons chosen to decide who has the better lawyer.

Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.

Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.

Yeah, I’m an open book.

What is truth? said jesting Pilate; and would not stay for an answer.

If you only do things where you know the answer in advance, your company goes away.

I went into the business for the money, and the art grew out of it. If people are disillusioned by that remark, I can’t help it. It’s the truth.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

Truth has rough flavours if we bite it through.

The more extensive a man’s knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his power of knowing what to do.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

Everybody thinks that when new technologies come along that they’re transparent and you can just do your job well on it. But technologies always import a whole new set of values with them.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

My mind doesn’t work, my memories don’t work like a computer file where I can just retrieve them and, boy, there it is. My mind is selective in terms of memories. When I try to think back to college or high school, there are gaps. I try to fill them in. But I can’t tell you it’s always the truth.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

This nuclear option is ultimately an example of the arrogance of power.

I said on the equality side of it, that it is essential to a woman’s equality with man that she be the decision-maker, that her choice be controlling.

There’s no difference between one’s killing and making decisions that will send others to kill. It’s exactly the same thing, or even worse.

There’s just some magic in truth and honesty and openness.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

I don’t ever make moves under pressure.

There are lies, damned lies and statistics.

When you’re 40, you can’t ride the fence anymore. You gotta make definite decisions about your life.

To see what is right and not to do it is want of courage, or of principle.

Be slow in choosing a friend, slower in changing.

Anyone who doesn’t take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either.

People need good lies. There are too many bad ones.

Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Every man must decide whether he will walk in the light of creative altruism or in the darkness of destructive selfishness.

In the first book of my Discworld series, published more than 26 years ago, I introduced Death as a character; there was nothing particularly new about this – death has featured in art and literature since medieval times, and for centuries we have had a fascination with the Grim Reaper.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. That’s the funniest joke in the world.

No one person controls Microsoft. The board and the shareholders decide whether they want to have me as CEO.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing; a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

Do I wear a helmet? Ugh. I do when I’m riding through a precarious part of town, meaning Midtown traffic. But when I’m riding on secure protected lanes or on the paths that run along the Hudson or through Central Park – no, I don’t wear the dreaded helmet then.

I know now that there is no one thing that is true – it is all true.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

Human behavior flows from three main sources: desire, emotion, and knowledge.

When you are young you tend to do so many things that are not needed. When you get experience, you know what exactly what works for you and you tend to do things that you want.

I have always believed in evolving a consensus before taking any major decision.

I make decisions all day, so it’s nice for a woman like me to go to dinner and have the man take the menu and say, ‚Let me order.‘ Other women would be offended by that, but I’m like, ‚Good. Because I can’t make one more decision today.‘ I want someone to rub my feet without being asked.

Wisdom oft times consists of knowing what to do next.

Every act you have ever performed since the day you were born was performed because you wanted something.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

The lie is a condition of life.

If you judge, investigate.

The problem with car dealerships is you’ve already decided what you want to buy before you even go there, and you’re really just going there to talk through some annoying negotiation.

Cowardice asks the question, is it safe? Expediency asks the question, is it politic? Vanity asks the question, is it popular? But conscience asks the question, is it right? And there comes a time when one must take a position that is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular, but one must take it because it is right.

There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.