Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world. – George Bernard Shaw

[I]ntegrity is choosing your thoughts and actions based on values rather than personal gain. – Chris Karcher, Relationships of Grace, 2003

Consequences are unpitying. Our deeds carry their terrible consequences, quite apart from any fluctuations that went before—consequences that are hardly ever confined to ourselves. And it is best to fix our minds on that certainty, instead of considering what may be the elements of excuse for us. – George Eliot, Adam Bede

I have found some of the best reasons I ever had for remaining at the bottom simply by looking at the men at the top. – Frank Moore Colby