You know there are no secrets in America. It's quite different in England, where people think of a secret as a shared relation between two people.
W. H. Auden

But more wonderful than the lore of old men and the lore of books is the secret lore of ocean.
H. P. Lovecraft

A photograph is a secret about a secret. The more it tells you the less you know.
Diane Arbus

He who has learned to pray has learned the greatest secret of a holy and happy life.
William Law

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.
Irving Berlin

I have never made any secret of any of my thoughts or areas of interest. I've always been honest, open, and upfront.
Boyd Rice

The secret thoughts of a man run over all things, holy, profane, clean, obscene, grave, and light, without shame or blame.
Thomas Hobbes

Think about the photo before and after, never during. The secret is to take your time. You mustn't go too fast. The subject must forget about you. Then, however, you must be very quick.
Henri Cartier-Bresson

There are certain things that they say you can't do, there are all these secret people behind the scenes who make things available for you to do. That's why you have so much crime and violence.
Afrika Bambaataa

It is the public scandal that offends; to sin in secret is no sin at all.
Moliere

Put your heart, mind, and soul into even your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.
Swami Sivananda

The ability to convert ideas to things is the secret of outward success.
Henry Ward Beecher

The true secret of giving advice is, after you have honestly given it, to be perfectly indifferent whether it is taken or not, and never persist in trying to set people right.
Henry Ward Beecher

If there is any secret to my success, I think it's that my characters are very real to me. I feel everything they feel, and therefore I think my readers care about them.
Sidney Sheldon

But it must not be thought that I say this out of personal experience: for in the many years that I have been before the public my secret methods have been steadily shielded by the strict integrity of my assistants, most of whom have been with me for years.
Harry Houdini

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.
Martin Buber

Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.
Ralph Nader

You might hold an ethical position that it's wrong to lie, but if you have plans for a war in Iraq, and you want to keep them secret for practical reasons - to reduce casualties, perhaps - and someone asks you about those plans, you may need to lie for a 'good' outcome.
Peter Singer

Gluttony is not a secret vice.
Orson Welles

Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do.
Marilyn vos Savant