Quotes about Secrecy

I look at Danny and Carolyn, the only other people in the room. It's time for me to go, alone and off the record. For years I've been constantly going, but never alone and never off the record. The Secret Service takes every step with me, and at least one aide is almost always there, even when I'm on vacation. A record is kept of where I am every hour.

But real openness to each other also means a real closedness, because only he who can hold a secret can safely share his knowledge. When we do not protect with great care our own inner mystery, we will never be able to form community. It is this inner mystery that attracts us to each other and allows us to establish friendship and develop lasting relationships of love.

It is remarkable how many creatures live wild and free though secret in the woods, and still sustain themselves in the neighborhood of towns, suspected by hunters only. How retired the otter manages to live here! He grows to be four feet long, as big as a small boy, perhaps without any human being getting a glimpse of him. I

do not let your left hand know what your right hand does, for it is not worth knowing.

An uncommon prudence is habtual with the subtler depravity, for it has everything to hide.

Your true heart is best revealed in secret. In other words, the secret you is the real you.

It's a good feeling to not tell people what's going on.

Some faces are never so gay as when regaling a scandal, which the generous heart would cover and the devout heart pray over.

Never regard something as doing you good if it makes you betray a trust, or lose your sense of shame, or makes you show hatred, suspicion, ill will, or hypocrisy, or a desire for things best done behind closed doors.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read. Not by any other person, and not even by yourself at some later date.

The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will never be read.

The Aunts had their methods, and their informants: no walls were solid for them, no doors locked.