Quacks are a part of our culture, and we all fall prey to them. Who among us can say, for sure, that even our own personal physicians are honest and competent?

People have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook. I earned everything I’ve got.

The first principle is that you must not fool yourself and you are the easiest person to fool.

You find no man, at all intellectual, who is willing to leave London. No, Sir, when a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

Being a Puerto Rican artist, I support all kinds of projects that are developed on my beautiful island that in some way or another put our Puerto Rican flag up.

As long as the people don’t fear the truth, there is hope. For once they fear it, the one who tells it doesn’t stand a chance. And today, truth is still beautiful… but so frightening.

I never gave anybody hell! I just told the truth and they thought it was hell.

An honest man’s the noblest work of God.

Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don’t implement promises, but keep them.

If you want to get each individual’s honest opinion, you don’t want that opinion to be influenced by others who are present, much less allow a group to coordinate what they are going to say.

The cynics are right nine times out of ten.

Skepticism is a virtue in history as well as in philosophy.

An unexciting truth may be eclipsed by a thrilling lie.

When you walk into my classroom, I’m going to give it to you straight, just like in the real world, because that’s the only way to prepare you for the real world.

So near is falsehood to truth that a wise man would do well not to trust himself on the narrow edge.

One must not cheat anyone, not even the world of its victory.

I do not pilfer victory.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

I believe in using words, not fists. I believe in my outrage knowing people are living in boxes on the street. I believe in honesty. I believe in a good time. I believe in good food. I believe in sex.

The very elements of what constitutes good nursing are as little understood for the well as for the sick. The same laws of health or of nursing, for they are in reality the same, obtain among the well as among the sick.

There are plenty of people who are, I think, completely racist who love hip-hop.

I feel that there are a few things in the world without cultural barriers.

Speak the truth, and all things alive or brute are vouchers, and the very roots of the grass underground there, do seem to stir and move to bear you witness.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

It’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order to simply make a poem, that you fail.

One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards.

I break orbital bones.

All black Americans have slave names. They have white names; names that the slave master has given to them.

Honesty is for the most part less profitable than dishonesty.

I don’t consider myself to be that credulous.

After a century of trying, we declared that healthcare in America is not a privilege for a few, it is a right for everybody. After decades of talk, we finally began to wean ourselves off foreign oil. We doubled our production of clean energy. We brought more of our troops home to their families, and we delivered justice to Osama bin Laden.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

I think it’s an Irish thing. We don’t really care. We say it as we mean it, and you have to deal with it. The truth is the truth.

I have written too much history to have faith in it; and if anyone thinks I’m wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Nothing is more dangerous to one’s own faith than the work of an apologist. No doctrine of that faith seems to me so spectral, so unreal as one that I have just successfully defended in a public debate.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

I think everyone should approach relationships from the perspective of playing it straight and giving someone the benefit of the doubt. Until he establishes that this is a game. And if it’s a game, you need to win. The best thing to do is just walk away from the table.

I don’t ascribe to myself any special competence in economic insight. I translate what I hear from highly intelligent people into political and philosophical propositions.

All cultures have these feelings about non-functional areas of activity. And the more time people have on their hands, the more they commit it to those areas.

Civilization is the making of civil persons.

In hip-hop, there’s not a lot of love. There’s not a lot of love being spread. It’s always like ‚I’m stuntin‘ on you raps, or I’m better than you raps.‘ It’s not a lot of ‚Yo man, I idolize you raps.‘

Anger cannot be dishonest.

I’m as skeptical as anyone would be about celebrities and causes – and I will dare to say to you that I don’t think of myself as a celebrity per se.

I have a personal ambition to live my life honestly and honor the true love that I’ve had and also the people I’ve had around me. I want to stay hopeful, even though I get scared about why we’re even alive at all.

It is not part of a true culture to tame tigers, any more than it is to make sheep ferocious.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

There’s no point in saying anything but the truth.

The real danger is not inaction. The real danger is when politicians and CEOs are making it look like action is happening when in fact nothing is being done.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

Women deeply want men who are competent and powerful. And I don’t mean power in that they can exert tyrannical control over others. That’s not power. That’s just corruption.

I don’t have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I’m left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct.

The root of all superstition is that men observe when a thing hits, but not when it misses.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it.

Treat those who are good with goodness, and also treat those who are not good with goodness. Thus goodness is attained. Be honest to those who are honest, and be also honest to those who are not honest. Thus honesty is attained.

I’m not always going to say things the perfect way, the right way. But I’m going to say how I feel.

The people who hold that our culture is an oppressive patriarchy, they don’t want to admit that the current hierarchy might be predicated on competence.

When you’re faced with an opponent, the media asks the questions, and I answer truthfully. I don’t hold back.

One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.

Exaggeration is a blood relation to falsehood and nearly as blamable.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.