“My only illness is that sometimes I'm too honest with people.”

Source: 2010s, Nomad: A Personal Journey Through the Clash of Civilizations (2010), Chapter 6, “My Cousins” (p. 81)

Pierre Lebrun, The Canadian Press (September 6, 2006) "Caps' Ovechkin says he is not ready to wear the 'C'", The Chronicle Herald, p. D3.

NBC's Meet The Press (3 October 1999) responding to criticism of his remarks in Playboy magazine.
Context: I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am...

Source: Infinite Jest

Angelus (24 September 1978) http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/john_paul_i/angelus/documents/hf_jp-i_ang_24091978_en.html <br class="br">Context: People sometimes say: &quot;we are in a society that is all rotten, all dishonest.&quot; That is not true. There are still so many good people, so many honest people. Rather, what can be done to improve society? I would say: let each of us try to be good and to infect others with a goodness imbued with the meekness and love taught by Christ. Christ&#x27;s golden rule was: &quot;do not do to others what you do not want done to yourself. Do to others what you want done to yourself.&quot; &#x27;And he always gave. Put on the cross, not only did he forgive those who crucified him, but he excused them. He said: &quot;Father, forgive them for they know not what they do.&quot; This is Christianity, these are sentiments which, if put into practice would help society so much.

Source: It's Kind of a Funny Story

2013, "Let Freedom Ring" Ceremony (August 2013)
Context: To dismiss the magnitude of this progress -- to suggest, as some sometimes do, that little has changed -- that dishonors the courage and the sacrifice of those who paid the price to march in those years. Medgar Evers, James Chaney, Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner, Martin Luther King Jr. -- they did not die in vain. Their victory was great. But we would dishonor those heroes as well to suggest that the work of this nation is somehow complete. The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn’t bend on its own. To secure the gains this country has made requires constant vigilance, not complacency. Whether by challenging those who erect new barriers to the vote, or ensuring that the scales of justice work equally for all, and the criminal justice system is not simply a pipeline from underfunded schools to overcrowded jails, it requires vigilance. And we'll suffer the occasional setback. But we will win these fights. This country has changed too much. People of goodwill, regardless of party, are too plentiful for those with ill will to change history’s currents.

As quoted in "V.S. Pritchett's Century" (1990) by Martin Amis; later included in Visiting Mrs. Nabokov and Other Excursions (1993) by Martin Amis, p. 265

Fragment 267 https://books.google.com/books?id=OxlHAAAAIAAJ&amp;pg=PA233&amp;dq=%22The+man+who+does+ill,+ill+must+suffer+too.%22 (trans. by Plumptre)