Wen Ho Lee Quotes

I don't pretend anything anymore. I don't have time, desire or energy to calculate anymore.

I'm just here and I'm doin' the best I can. If you don't understand that, then what can I do?

I already gave my best.

To some degree. I know I couldn't do it anymore.

I'm going to be as sincere as I can in delivering the message I think is right. If people agree, great, and if they don't, I did my best.

There are times a country is so tired of bull that only the truth can provide relief.

I don't know anything!' Tim(Caleb) wailed. He'd never spoken a truer word in his life.

The most hateful grief of all human griefs is to have knowledge of a truth, but no power over the event.

Don't you think if I was able to make some changes, I would have already?

Turns out if you never lie, there's always someone mad at you.

I'm not choosing, but I'm running out of fight.

I should say nothing! I'm through with it! I hate to repeat myself all the time.

I am so tired of rearranging my life around what the stupidest people might do.

Be truthful, say what you mean and mean what you say, don't ignore the given circumstances.

And if candor strikes to forcefully, step back, draw careful breath, and consider the angle your words must take before you open your mouth, let them leak out. Because once you tilt the truth, it becomes a lie.

If you know, say you know. If you don't know, say you don't know.

Don't deceive me. Never leave me.

I'm getting really tired of bleeding. Someone stop the world, I want to get off.

Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it.

As you talk, so is your heart.

The realization that I’d have nothing to take home had finally sunk in. My knees buckled and I slid down the tree trunk to its roots. It was too much. I was too sick and weak and tired, oh, so tired. Let them call the Peacekeepers and take us to the community home, I thought. Or better yet, let me die right here in the rain.

There are many justifications of silence; there can be none of insincerity.

Nobody has a right to speak more clearly than he thinks.

Everything had been stripped of deceptions, that time. And that time I was afraid of everything.

Lying is too much trouble. You have to make sure to taste each word before letting it off your tongue. I hate that. It's hard enough making people understand without lying.