i miss gorgeous butterfly walking peacefully around the flowers

Radical honesty with oneself is an exquisite risk; that yields the reward of claiming ownership of the power to amaze yourself.

To be totally honest? I don’t know if I’ll keep doing more impressions. People told me I had a facility for it, and I was like, ‘Okay, I’m the impression guy.’ So you imagine the...

Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.

The concept of leadership is abused by people who think a person becomes a leader when he grows grey hair, put into a position and expected to function. Everyone has a leadership potential carried within...

I love being honest and intimate with people. I love building community. I love emailing with readers.

I’m the sort of guy who will accept blame, if it means being singled out as honest and honorable, and there’s a chance I’ll be rewarded.

I know how I want to operate as an artist. And that is by having an honest, genuine dialogue about this kind of screwed up journey I’ve had that I’m so thankful for.

I respect people who hate me honestly.

I think there’s a form of honesty, because I used to be very honest with the press, and then it backfired on me, and I understood it.

To be honest, that was the most nervous I was all spring. Just having to get ready real quick and the adrenaline was running more than ever.

It’s real easy to manufacture what you think the people want to hear. But that’s not very honest.

Many of us fight for and boast our freedom of what is ultimately the ability to prove ourselves to other people. It is unfortunate that only a few of us are so free in our...

A man must be honest enough to make mistakes, if not he’s just lying to you

I’m part of the fashion system, but I don’t want to follow all the rules. I don’t want to be contrarian – I just want to do my own things, which are most honest and...

To be honest, I grew up with Alan Menken’s music.

The feedback I get is that my books are honest. I don’t sugar-coat anything. Life is really hard.

‘Vinyl’ is a good look at the music industry. The script was honest.

I get no respect. The way my luck is running, if I was a politician I would be honest.

At least I can say that I’m honest.

Honesty is a complex and tricky thing, and we don’t want to be honest all the time.

Reviewers are certainly entitled to their own opinions. I’ve become buddies with enough writers and directors, and to be perfectly honest, the ones that have lasted a long time don’t pay a lot of attention...

Maintain your integrity! Live life in such a way that when another person tells his or her truth, you’ll not be committed for blame.

It’s meant to reaffirm the validity of that music – clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

It is not the crook in modern business that we fear, but the honest man who doesn’t know what he is doing.

…when someone is honest and vulnerable, they wring my heart – I want to hug them for being real…

Sometimes it’s better to have a benign dictator than a dumb democracy, to be honest.

Sometimes, the silence between the two persons is better than their conversation especially when they are not of compatible ABC (Attitude, Behavior,Character).

I’m just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I’m honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day, don’t care what people say. I never cared about what...

You can be in your room and lead people. Just develop your potentials and publicize them and you will see people looking for your product. That is influence; self-made leaders do not look for followers....

People online will tell you what they really think – there’s no diplomacy. They’re honest; it’s good to have the feedback immediately.

I’m not in manufacturing, but I make something. I make a difference. But to be honest, I think China can make it cheaper.

To be honest, I can’t wait to be a dad. I really hope that that’s how the cookie crumbles for me.

I hate when you have to smile for me..so nice if you’d do that spontaneously.

I do think deception… There’s something kind of odd about tricking people for a living, but ultimately, it’s a remarkably honest profession, when you think about it. If you violate that code, and you say...

I don’t really want to control anyone, to be honest.

He smiles an honest smile for the first time, and the difference is hard to describe but easy to recognize.

They decided as part of my 75th birthday celebrations that I would be entitled to fly first class. I’ll be honest, I’m not good at flying anymore. To my credit, I can stretch out on...

Moving forward without honest efforts is moving backwards in disguise

I think the key for a child to do well in a divorce is, very simply, you have to be honest with them.

I like talking to you,’ he said, slowly.’Why?’ That was the way to hear nice things. Ask why.

I am not honest.

I’m a writer. I’m a Christian. I like sex. But I haven’t had it. I believe in waiting until marriage. But that doesn’t mean I want my characters to.

Peace, commerce and honest friendship with all nations; entangling alliances with none.

You should praise, criticize and flirt with people right to their face, only then it will make a difference.

I would hate the thought of dying full stop; I’ve got to be honest with you.

I love ghosts; I prefer ghosts to some people.

Whatever you do well in the darkness tells more about who you are than what you do best in light. Watch out!

To be honest, I was Mum’s boy. Always was, always will be.

There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It’s just always been that way.