Ryan Howard Quotes

People with nothing to hide don't usually feel the need to say so.

I have nothing to hide. I believe when you do you naturally become defensive.

Emmy, the events we lived through taught me to be sure of nothing about other people. They taught me to expect danger around every corner. They taught me to understand that there are people in this world that mean you harm, And sometimes, they're the people who say they love you.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.

One man's transparency is another's humiliation.

I don't know how to defend myself: surprised innocence cannot imagine being under suspicion.

If you have something that you don't want anyone to know, maybe you shouldn't be doing it in the first place.

The hardest thing to do is to trust people.

Well, I've got nothing to hide. Absolutely nothing.

If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn't be in it.

I over-scrutinize anyone new entering my life.

People with bad consciences always fear the judgment of children.

With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.

I understand people have doubts, but I'm totally clean.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

It's really hard not to be paranoid when you find out that you've been spied on.

If I'm guilty, I'm the ultimate figure to fear, because I'm not the obvious one. But, on the other hand, if I'm innocent, it means that everyone is vulnerable, and that is everyone's nightmare. Either I'm a psychopath in sheep's clothing, or I am you.

It may be irrational, but if you're local, the client often feels that, if worse comes to worst, they can knock on your door. They 'know where you live.' But when you're remote, they're going to be more suspicious when phone calls go unreturned or emails keep getting 'lost.' Stay on top of communications, and you'll reap the benefits.

People who have nothing to hide, hide nothing. You should be an open book, be transparent.

I misled people, including even my wife.

If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place

People who live in transparent bodies shouldn't be so suspicious.

For me, writing [was] a question of survival...I could not trust anyone, even my family. The atmosphere was so poisoned. People even in your own family could turn you in.

Guilt and no guilt: these were the worst things. The only thing worse than the guilt was the fear of getting caught.

I don't want to promote paranoia. It's not like wow, everybody is after me. You know that's not going to be very powerful. A person like Stalin was like that and he was powerful, but it ended up completely destroying him because he couldn't trust anyone.