If you're trying to create a company, it's like baking a cake. You have to have all the ingredients in the right proportion.
Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.
Liars share with those they deceive the desire not to be deceived.
While all deception requires secrecy, all secrecy is not meant to deceive.
Trust is a social good to be protected just as much as the air we breathe or the water we drink. When it is damaged, the community as a whole suffers; and when it is destroyed, societies falter and collapse
Trust and integrity are precious resources, easily squandered, hard to regain. They can thrive only on a foundation of respect for veracity.
I believe that a guarantee of public access to government information is indispensable in the long run for any democratic society. . . . if officials make public only what they want citizens to know, then publicity becomes a sham and accountability meaningless.
It is quite useless knocking at the door of heaven for earthly comfort. It's not the sort of comfort they supply there.
The decisions you make today will determine the stories you tell tomorrow.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
There's a real sense of fighting and destruction in our DNA that we don't get in touch with.