Quotes about Privacy

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

There is no privacy that cannot be penetrated. No secret can be kept in the civilized world. Society is a masked ball where everyone hides his real character, then reveals it by hiding

Every man should be content to mind his own business.

I still, at hotel rooms, I do this one sort of not-so-cool thing: continually shoving my room service tray in front of someone else's door. Because I don't want the remnants. I don't want to be caught, like, being like the pig that I was at two in the morning.

To mind your own business incorporates the whole duty of man.

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.

There is a need for aloneness... for an actor.

Sales of George Orwell's 1984 have skyrocketed. It's true. So the fallout from the (NSA spying) scandal is worse than we thought. It's forcing Americans to read.

Her heart was a secret garden and the walls were very high.

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone.

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

To be unknown to God is altogether too much privacy.