You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned seventy, or given up all hope of the Presidency.
To begin with myself, then, the utterances of men concerning me will differ widely, since in passing judgment almost every one is influenced not so much by truth as by preference, and good and evil report alike know no bounds.
Truth, like the burgeoning of a bulb under the soil, however deeply sown, will make its way to the light.
Truth can be costly, but in the end it never falls short of value for the price paid.
There is in the end no remedy but truth. It is the one course that cannot be evil.
Stephen Sondheim told me that Oscar Hammerstein believed everything that he wrote. So there's great truth in the songs, and that's what was so wonderful to find.
Competence, like truth, beauty, and contact lenses, is in the eye of the beholder.
There is no telling what is going to happen in the music business in the next few years, hours, minutes, seconds. Giving artists the chance to produce and distribute their own material is great, very empowering. The technological changes that are happening so rapidly now, amongst all the opinions, are in truth, only two things, inevitable and unstoppable.
All we can do is keep going up against then as long as Ray is alive because when he dies it will not be possible to establish the truth of his innocence in a court of law.
Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.
Nothing does reason more right, than the coolness of those that offer it: For Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders, than from the arguments of its opposers.
Well the truth is, Republicans didn't just lose a few elections, we lost our way.
He who does not bellow the truth when he knows the truth makes himself the accomplice of liars and forgers.
It is a sort of great Victorian truth that actually, trying to do the right thing is pretty good for you and pretty good for business as well, by and large.
As for the men in power, they are so anxious to establish the myth of infallibility that they do their utmost to ignore truth.