Work is of two kinds: first, altering the position of matter at or near the earth's surface relative to other matter; second, telling other people to do so.

It's not that hard to be good, you can be good off raw talent. But I feel like it's that extra step, doing work and putting a body of work in and doing things when nobody else is watching. When nobody else is telling you to do it, you're pushing yourself to do it.

Ask Elizabeth is a community of voices, it's not me standing on a podium telling people how to run their lives, it's girls helping each other sharing their wisdom and advice and I create a space for them to do it.

The art of storytelling is reaching its end because the epic side of truth, wisdom, is dying out.

Being a survivor doesn't mean being strong - it's telling people when you need a meal or a ride, company, whatever. It's paying attention to heart wisdom, feelings, not living a role, but having a unique, authentic life, having something to contribute, finding time to love and laugh. All these things are qualities of survivors.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

I like Shane and Falguni Peacock. I keep telling girls that if I marry them, I'll buy them wedding trousseau from Peacock.

I've realized that although Valentine's Day can be a cheesy money-making stint to most people, it's a day of expressing love across the world. It doesn't have to only be between lovers, but by telling a friend that you care, or even an old person that they are still appreciated.

I feel a responsibility for telling the truth.

When it comes to memoir, we want to catch the author in a lie. When we read fiction, we want to catch the author telling the truth.

There are two ways of lying. One, not telling the truth and the other, making up statistics.

It is hard to believe that a man is telling the truth when you know that you would lie if you were in his place.

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.

When the people who are responsible for our country ask you a direct question, I expect them to accept a direct answer, not to be blackballed because you are telling the truth.

Until I came out, my acting was all about disguise, and thereafter it became about telling the truth.

Telling lies is the easy bit, but telling the truth and pretending you are lying is hard.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it. You find that out really fast.

A gaffe in Washington is someone telling the truth, and telling the truth has never hurt me.

I pefer an ugly truth to a pretty lie. If someone is telling me the truth that is when I will give my heart.

I talk about the gods, I am an atheist. But I am an artist too, and therefore a liar. Distrust everything I say. I am telling the truth.

Above all, I would teach him to tell the truth Truth-telling, I have found, is the key to responsible citizenship. The thousands of criminals I have seen in 40 years of law enforcement have had one thing in common: Every single one was a liar.

There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.

Honesty is more than not lying. It is truth telling, truth speaking, truth living, and truth loving.

In the last few years, the very idea of telling the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth is dredged up only as a final resort when the alternative options of deception, threat and bribery have all been exhausted.