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?

The influence of a mother upon the lives of her children cannot be measured. They know and absorb her example and attitudes when it comes to questions of honesty, temperance, kindness, and industry.

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 cynics are right nine times out of ten.

The great moments of rock ‚n‘ roll were never off in some corner of the music world, in a self-constructed ghetto.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

In the West, we have been withdrawing from our tradition-, religion-, and even nation-centred cultures.

I stand by all the misstatements that I’ve made.

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure – the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?

Art is not a treasure in the past or an importation from another land, but part of the present life of all living and creating peoples.

We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare.

Nicki Minaj, I’m at MTV. I’m going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I’m not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you’re busy.

The baby boomers are getting older, and will stay older for longer. And they will run right into the dementia firing range. How will a society cope? Especially a society that can’t so readily rely on those stable family relationships that traditionally provided the backbone of care?

India does not need to become anything else. India must become only India. This is a country that once upon a time was called the golden bird.

I don’t see the point of doing an interview unless you’re going to share the things you learn in life and the mistakes you make. So to admit that I’m extremely human and have done some dark things I don’t think makes me unusual or unusually dark. I think it actually is the right thing to do, and I’d like to think it’s the nice thing to do.

A lack of transparency results in distrust and a deep sense of insecurity.

No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.

I don’t want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He’s a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

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

Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.

You know we’re going to control the insurance companies.

As a medical doctor, I have known the face of adversity. I have seen much of death and dying, suffering and sorrow. I also remember the plight of students overwhelmed by their studies and of those striving to learn a foreign language. And I recall the fatigue and frustration felt by young parents with children in need.

Every time I say something that’s extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.

Treatment without prevention is simply unsustainable.

But if you – if what – the reports are true, what they’re saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins that’s going to increase our costs, we knew that.

Do not be very upright in your dealings for you would see by going to the forest that straight trees are cut down while crooked ones are left standing.

I’m an atheist.

It seems sensible to me that we should look to the medical profession, that over the centuries has helped us to live longer and healthier lives, to help us die peacefully among our loved ones in our own home without a long stay in God’s waiting room.

If the writing is honest it cannot be separated from the man who wrote it.

Never have we stolen the intelligences of other peoples. On the contrary, in Cuba we have trained tens of thousands of doctors and other top-level professionals, for free, in order to send them back to their own countries.

It’s important to love in hip hop.

A person should not be too honest. Straight trees are cut first and honest people are screwed first.

It is more shameful to distrust our friends than to be deceived by them.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

It’s considered acceptable in our culture to approach perfect strangers, as often or not who may be in extremis, and evangelise. I don’t see why that’s considered a normal thing.

I don’t believe in astrology; I’m a Sagittarius and we’re skeptical.

Popular culture is a contradiction in terms. If it’s popular, it’s not culture.

Panic plays no part in the training of a nurse.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United States, can you avoid such a thing. In the center of an empire, you can think of your experience as universal. Outside the empire or on the fringes of the empire, you cannot.

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

I want to be an honest man and a good writer.

Polygamy: An endeavour to get more out of life than there is in it.

I hate talking about music, to tell you the truth.

Even if a snake is not poisonous, it should pretend to be venomous.

Wherever the invitation of men or your own occasions lead you, speak the very truth, as your life and conscience teach it, and cheer the waiting, fainting hearts of men with new hope and new revelation.

Fashion is not something that exists in dresses only. Fashion is in the sky, in the street, fashion has to do with ideas, the way we live, what is happening.

I always knew that St. Jude was an amazing organization but meeting the kids and seeing how the hospital works first hand was truly beautiful. It doesn’t feel like a regular hospital all dreary and sad. It’s a colorful, beautiful, comfortable, fun place to live and the energy is wonderful.

I don’t mind telling a dark side.

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

I believe that it is better to tell the truth than a lie. I believe it is better to be free than to be a slave. And I believe it is better to know than to be ignorant.

I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don’t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if there is anything to be got by it.

Piety is not a goal but a means to attain through the purest peace of mind the highest culture.

I’m a strict, strict agnostic. It’s very different from a casual, ‚I don’t know.‘ It’s that you cannot present as knowledge something that is not knowledge. You can present it as faith, you can present it as belief, but you can’t present it as fact.

By reading, you learn through others‘ experiences, generally, a better way to do business, especially in our line of work where the consequences of incompetence are so final for young men.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

Many Tibetans sacrifice their lives.

A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months.