Mobius's blog: "...what some people have to say about it...what about YOU!!???"

Abigail Van Buren: The best index to a person's character is how he treats people who can't do him any good, and how he treats people who can't fight back. Abraham Lincoln: Character is like a tree and reputation like a shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing. Albert Einstein: Try not to become a man of success but rather try to become a man of value. Anne Frank: Parents can only give good advice or put them on the right paths, but the final forming of a person's character lies in their own hands. Benjamin Franklin: There never was a good knife made of bad steel. Cicero: It is virtue, virtue, which both creates and preserves friendship. On it depends harmony of interest, permanence, fidelity. Clarence Darrow: With all their faults, trade unions have done more for humanity than any other organization of men that ever existed. They have done more for decency, for honesty, for education, for the betterment of the race, for the developing of character in men, than any other association of men. Eleanor Roosevelt: People grow through experience if they meet life honestly and courageously. This is how character is built. Faith Baldwin: Character builds slowly, but it can be torn down within incredible swiftness. Goethe: Character develops itself in the stream of life. H. Jackson Brown: Good character is more to be praised than outstanding talent. Most talents are, to some extent, a gift. Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it, piece by piece -- by thought, choice, courage, and determination. Helen Keller: Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired, and success achieved. Henry David Thoreau: Dreams are the touchstones of our character. Henry David Thoreau: How can we expect a harvest of thought who have not had a seedtime of character? James A. Froude: You cannot dream yourself into a character; you must hammer and forge yourself one. Lillian Hellman: I cannot and will not cut my conscience to fit this year's fashions, even though I long ago came to the conclusion that I was not a political person and could have no comfortable place in any political group. [Letter to the US House of Representatives Committee on Un-American Activities, 1952] Margaret Chase Smith: Moral cowardice that keeps us from speaking our minds is as dangerous to this country as irresponsible talk. The right way is not always the popular and easy way. Standing for right when it is unpopular is a true test of moral character. Mark Twain: To arrive at a just estimate of a renowned man's character one must judge it by the standards of his time, not ours. Martin Luther King, Jr.: I look forward confidently to the day when all who work for a living will be one with no thought to their separateness as Negroes, Jews, Italians or any other distinctions. This will be the day when we bring into full realization the American dream -- a dream yet unfulfilled. A dream of equality of opportunity, of privilege and property widely distributed; a dream of a land where men will not take necessities from the many to give luxuries to the few; a dream of a land where men will not argue that the color of a man's skin determines the content of his character; a dream of a nation where all our gifts and resources are held not for ourselves alone, but as instruments of service for the rest of humanity; the dream of a country where every man will respect the dignity and worth of the human personality. Mohandas K. Gandhi: The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles.