“Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching — even when doing the wrong thing is legal.”

“The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.”

“A bottom line principle of business—and life—is, to do what is right, even when no one else is looking. Likewise, we ought to do the right thing even if others around us seem to be backwards.”

“But it's not enough to know right from wrong. You need the strength to do what's right, even when what you want most in the world is the wrong thing.”

“There can be as many wrong reasons to do the right thing as there are stars in the sky. There might even be more than one legitimate right reason. But there is never a right reason to do the wrong thing. Not ever.”

“Integrity is doing the right thing, even if nobody is watching.”

“Doing the right thing for someone else occasionally means doing something that feels wrong to you.”

“And I also know that loving someone—even when it’s scary, even when there are consequences—is never the wrong thing to do.”

“It will always happen when a thing is originally wrong that amendments do not make it right, and it oftens happens that they do as much mischief one way as good the other…”

“But the one thing you shd. not do is suppose that when something is wrong with the arts, it is wrong with the arts ONLY.”