Truth of a modest sort I can promise you and also sincerity. That complete praiseworthy sincerity which while it delivers one into the hands of one's enemies is as likely as not to embroil one with one's friends.

Enthusiasm is the genius of sincerity and truth accomplishes no victories without it.

However greatly we distrust the sincerity of those we converse with yet still we think they tell more truth to us than to anyone else.

For a creative writer possession of the 'truth' is less important than emotional sincerity.

I now announce myself as candidate for the Presidency. I anticipate criticism but however unfavorable I trust that my sincerity will not be called into question.

I have in sincerity pledged myself to your service as so many of you are pledged to mine. Throughout all my life and with all my heart I shall strive to be worthy of your trust.

The secret of success is sincerity.

Insincerity is always weakness sincerity even in error is strength.

We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity not as a Republican but as an American that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee not because of his color but with indifference to it.

The artist himself may not think he is religious but if he is sincere his sincerity in itself is religion.

So on May 1 1987 at Gary's invitation I agreed to see him one last time - to confront him face-to-face about his sincerity and with the intention of ending our brief relationship.

Sincerity and competence is a strong combination. In politics it is everything.

The first question at that time in poetry was simply the question of honesty of sincerity.

Sincerity: willingness to spend one's own money.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money and that is sincerity and integrity.

Without feeling abashed by my ignorance I confess that I am absolutely unable to say. In the absence of an appearance of learning my answer has at least one merit that of perfect sincerity.

If knowledge and foresight are too penetrating and deep unify them with ease and sincerity.

Through mutual understanding sincerity and goodwill and with great wisdom and broad views the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace stability cooperation and mutual benefit.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims one turns as it were instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

I write about wounds the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.

How can sincerity be a condition of friendship? A taste for truth at any cost is a passion which spares nothing.

A friend should be one in whose understanding and virtue we can equally confide and whose opinion we can value at once for its justness and its sincerity.