"No man who has once heartily and wholly laughed can be altogether irreclaimably bad." - Thomas Carlyle

"It is innocence that is full and experience that is empty. It is innocence that wins and experience that loses." - Charles Peguy

"Always do right - this will gratify some and astonish the rest." - Mark Twain

"Few things are harder to put up with than a good example." - Mark Twain

"Of all the properties which belong to honorable men, not one is so highly prized as that of character." - Henry Clay

"Die when I may, I want it said by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow." - Abraham Lincoln

"Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at." - Goethe

"It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart." - Anne Frank

"Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved." - Helen Keller

"Who you are speaks so loudly I can't hear what you're saying." - Ralph Waldo Emerson

"That which does not kill us will only make us stronger." - Unknown