“Before speaking, consult your inner-truth barometer, and resist the temptation to tell people only what they want to hear.”

“It’s not the people in your life that tell you what you want to hear, it's the people in your life that tell you the truth that count.”

“I am the only one of us who brings in any money. the other two cannot make money fortune telling. this is because they only tell the truth, and the truth is not what people want to hear. it is a bad thing and it troubles people, so they do not come back.”

“It was as if I were powerless to resist the temptation; my senses were overcome. I could hear the emptiness, and taste the silence, and smell the solitude, and I wanted it more than I have ever wanted anything before.”

“When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.”

“Don't waste your time with explanations: people only hear what they want to hear.”