Quotes about Privacy

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. Otherwise you begin excusing yourself. You must see the writing as emerging like a long scroll of ink from the index finger of your right hand; you must see your left hand erasing it.

Don't be curious of matters that don't concern you; never speak of them, and don't ask about them.

When you experience God it is deeply personal, but it's not at all private.

Do not have as your motive the desire to be known as a praying man. Get an inner chamber in which to pray where no one knows you are praying, shut the door, and talk to God in secret.

The best way of keeping a secret is to pretend there isn't one.

Let them be yours alone, never to be shared with strangers.

To be unknown to God is entirely too much privacy.

I've learned that usually, the less I know about other people, the better off I am.

Everyone needs to make his own choices. You need to mind your own business and not meddle in ours. So

It's safer knowing more about people than they know about you.

There comes a point in a relationship when you realize that you trust someone enough to let them keep their secrets.

Bad temper is bad temper even in the apparent privacy of your own hard drive, and harsh and unjust words, when released into the wild, rampage around and do real damage. And as for the practice of saying mean and untrue things while hiding behind a pseudonym—well, if I get a letter like that it goes straight in the bin. But