Betty White on character

I’m not looking forward to death; it’s important to live while we are here. But those who have died, my mother said, now they know the secret. And someday we all will.

Kindness and consideration of somebody besides yourself keeps you feeling young.

I have no regrets at all. None. I consider myself to be the luckiest old broad on two feet.

Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.

John Wooden1910–2010

Noble character is best appreciated in those ages in which it can most readily develop.

Tacitus55–120

Character is higher than intellect… A great soul will be strong to live, as well as strong to think.

Ralph Waldo Emerson1803–1882The American Scholar (1837), par. 27