“Sometimes it’s difficult in politics to actually tell the truth.”

“To tell the truth is very difficult, and young people are rarely capable of it.”

“Sometimes carrying the burden of an upsetting truth, and hiding it, is actually a gift you give to someone else. You bear that burden, so they don’t have to, in a situation where telling them will change nothing.”

“Truth is so hard to tell, it sometimes needs fiction to make it plausible.”

“Sometimes you have to lie. But to yourself you must always tell the truth.”

“To tell you the truth, I sometimes find it a bit tiresome," Fiona said….”

“I'd always thought telling the truth to other people was hard, but maybe that was a snap compared to telling the truth to yourself. Sometimes we just refused to know what we knew.”

“It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.”

“Point is, people lie a lot. Sometimes out of habit. Not many people are good at telling the truth.”