The open honesty of children amazes me. It also makes me smile. As my years among the children have proven, what they think they say. I know this from experience. I’ve been told that they don’t like ...

“Honesty is the best policy,” as the saying goes. That expression, widely attributed to Benjamin Franklin, holds as true today as it did two centuries ago. Some University of Missouri faithful are ...

There’s a difference between meaningful honesty and unbridled self-expression.

Socrates’ quote quietly exposes this shift. The “child” in us does not fear truth the way adulthood often does. Honesty simplifies life in ways most people underestimate. A truthful person carries ...

Being honest is a great quality; no one can deny it. But today if people in public life practice pure honesty, this should be considered as something extraordinary. Not only this, if someone sets an ...

When I was a young schoolboy, I remember my mother packing my brown-bag lunch with an apple and a sandwich, which I ate each day at St. Michael’s Catholic School in Lynn, Massachusetts. I was ...