Honesty from health professionals matters more to patients than almost everything else that they experience when ill. - Sissela Bok

When we undertake to deceive others intentionally, we communicate messages meant to mislead them, meant to make them believe what we ourselves do not believe. We can do so through gesture, through disguise, by means of action or inaction, even through silence.

Whatever matters to human beings, trust is the atmosphere in which it thrives.

The role that one assigns to truthfulness will always remain central in considering what kind of person one wants to be—how one wishes to treat, not only other people, but oneself.