“The secret to getting away with lying, is believing with all your heart. That goes for lying to yourself even more so than lying to another”

“Pretending to feel differently than you actually feel is the same as lying to yourself. Lying to yourself does nothing to change your point of attraction; so it does nothing to improve your reality.”

“A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.”

“…I guess the very first thing is to own your true self, and that includes achieving the point of not lying to others; the first step should be not lying to yourself.”

“Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?”

“It is [a politician's] business to get and hold his job at all costs. If he can hold it by lying, he will hold it by lying; if lying peters out, he will try to hold it by embracing new truths. His ear is ever close to the ground.”

“For my part, getting up seems not so easy
By half as lying.”

“It is more from carelessness about truth than from intentional lying, that there is so much falsehood in the world.”

“They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.”

“You’re abbreviating heavily, not lying. That’s what you tell yourself.”