Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.

Tact is the ability to step on a man's toes without messing up the shine on his shoes.

I know of no diplomacy save that of truth.

There's no truth to that whatsoever. Our investment equity group from early on remains 100 percent in tact.

Sometimes, by pretending neutrality, in a conflict between evil and truth, one can inflict more damage to evil.

It is only the cynic who claims “to speak the truth” at all times and in all places to all men in the same way, but who, in fact, displays nothing but a lifeless image of the truth. . . . He dons the halo of the fanatical devotee of truth who can make no allowance for human weaknesses; but, in fact, he is destroying the living truth between men. He wounds shame, desecrates mystery, breaks confidence, betrays the community in which he lives, and laughs arrogantly at the devastation he has wrought and at the human weakness which “cannot bear the truth.