Character is that which reveals moral purpose, exposing the class of things a man chooses and avoids.

One may go wrong in many different ways, but right only in one, which is why it is easy to fail and difficult to succeed.

Life is only meaningful when we are striving for a goal .

Virtue also depends on ourselves. And so also does vice. For where we are free to act we are also free to refrain from acting, and where we are able to say No we are also able to say Yes; if therefore we are responsible for doing a thing when to do it right, we are also responsible for not doing it when not to do it is wrong, and if we are responsible for rightly not doing a thing, we are also responsible for wrongly doing it.

Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion.

...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest.

To be conscious that we are perceiving or thinking is to be conscious of our own existence.