You can be true to the character all you want but you’ve got to go home with yourself.

It is better to be alone than to become a person that loses his soul to the fear of loneliness.

To write is to reveal oneself.When I write something, fiction or non-fiction, I do not expect you to accept what I write, nor to agree with what I propose.I expect you to spend at least a tenth of a second to think about it – may be not about the characters, nor about the piece,...

Knowledge will give you power, but character respect.

People that hold onto hate for so long do so because they want to avoid dealing with their pain. They falsely believe if they forgive they are letting their enemy believe they are a doormat. What they don’t understand is hatred can’t be isolated or turned off. It manifests in their health, choices and belief...

It is with words that my heart sings, with the substance of integrity my character soars and without regret I look back smiling ~bns

A writer’s duty is to draw a picture that expresses more inner beauty, deeper anxiety, and more complex tragedy than a real character ever can.

Well written novels are penned by authors who have a unique and personal ardor for their story. They fabricate the phrases of their mind into a voice and thus a character is born.

The American flag doesn’t give her glory on a peaceful, calm day. It’s when the winds pick up and become boisterous, do we see her strength. When she unfolds her hand, and shows her frayed fingers, where we see the stretch of red-blood lines of man that fought for this land. The purity of white...

A wise man once said that a person is known by the company he keeps, but could then also add that the character of the company is known by the people it keeps for the longest days, especially at the strategic decision making level.

Strength of character isn’t always about how much you can handle before you break, it’s also about how much you can handle after you’ve broken.

If one abandons their principles when tested by struggle, they were never true principles but advertisements for character they never possessed.

It’s a dramatic shift for my character. He has put away the hatred for his brother – the sibling rivalry, the envy. At the core of him is respect for what he knows Sonny to be, and the subtext that he can save his brother.

Often you find the character through the things they say. How they talk about other people, how they describe themselves – which is very rare.

The core character of Victorians is one of aspiration and ambition, and Victorians have, since first settlement days… demonstrated that core character over and over again.

More or less, this was our best against their best. This whole program is built on class and character, and we weren’t going to leave anything up there. They had heart and soul to the end.

I prefer the rather old and battered, things with character, to the brand new.

A man’s own character is the arbiter of his fortune.

God gave you a gift of 84,600 seconds today. Have you used one of them to say thank you?

Loyalty is a feature in a boy’s character that inspires boundless hope.

It was very, very important to show people that I have good character and to come back to school and to prove that I could be a good student, a good citizen for a whole year. And to have a good season. And I think that I accomplished that.

There are a lot of great players in this game, but only one Kirby. It was his character that meant more to his teammates. He brought a great feeling to the clubhouse, the plane, everywhere.

My characters will happily march off a cliff if it is in them to do so, but may the gods help me if I write that the character is an alcoholic when they are not. They will fight me at every turn and it is their domain. A writer cannot win against a stubborn character.

I really do literally put myself into a character’s shoes.

You are never given a dream without also being given the power to make it true. You may have to work for it, however.

Confession: I don’t want to be one of my characters. I’m mean to them sometimes. Really mean.

I don’t steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it’s funny then so be it. If it’s dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.

Jesus said, ‘Greater things of these you shall do…’ Become a peace builder, a bridge builder, not a destroyer, and the way you do that is through friendships and relationships, and through authentic character.

In order to inhabit a character, you’ve got to embrace and empathise with them.

When you work on anything, you want to find the range of impulses – which ones get portrayed is another question, but you want to have that complexity and that fullness, even if you’re playing a cartoon character.

Perfection, then, is not a change in the essential character but the completion of a course. This is precisely what Jesus must have meant when he admonished his disciples and us to ‘be perfect,’ as our Heavenly Father is perfect.

Cavenaugh rubbed his hands together and smiled his sunny smile.’I like that idea. It’s reassuring. If we can have no secrets, it means we can’t, after all, go so far afield as we might,’ he hesitated, ‘yes, as we might.’Eastman looked at him sourly. ‘Cavenaugh, when you’ve practiced law in New York for twelve years,...

Character and Professionalism can only be seen when faced with adversity…

I’m 25, so I’ve already gone through what my character Ged goes through, though it’s on a general scale because I haven’t studied at a wizard’s school.

The average personality reshapes frequently, every few years even our bodies undergo a complete overhaul – desirable or not, it is a natural thing that we should change. All right, here were two people who never would change. That is what Mildred Grossman had in common with Holly Golightly. They would never change because they’d...

I sort of leave the character at the end of the day. I don’t carry anything around with me – no excess baggage or unnecessary thoughts. I think it’s too exhausting to do that. To put things into perspective – your work is your work, and your leisure time is something else.

Reason is an outcome of frailty and resentment. When Will fails to cope with the labour of life, or the life of labour, its fragile remnants are set to construct a slighter world of justifications.

Nature evaluates a character on the basis of its merits, not demerits.

A better man wouldn’t play this ‘sweethearts’ game with her when he knew very well it couldn’t lead to more.But he wasn’t a better man. He was Colin Sandhurst, reckless, incorrigible rogue—and damn it, he couldn’t resist. He wanted to amuse her, spoil her, feed her sweets and delicacies. Steal a kiss or two, when...

So odd. Most women of his acquaintance relied on physical beauty and charm to mask their less-pleasant traits. This girl did the opposite, hiding everything interesting about herself behind a prim, plain facade.What other surprises was she concealing?

I’ve worked all my life to shed myself of any character.

That was a character builder. We’ve got winners on this team. That wasn’t easy. Beckett was rolling. We got some big clutch home runs. That was outstanding. That’s one where you come all the way back — when you end up winning those games, it does a lot for you.

A liar deceives himself more than anyone, for he believes he can remain a person of good character when he cannot.

It is neither trials nor relationships nor successes nor failures that define a man, but the choices he makes while handling them.

I have been working up until recently with Neil Simon, who has been adapting the character to me.

The way a person spends his money and time can tell a lot about the things he or she values.

They are men of character. I find their confrontation very funny, but maybe I’m the only one to think so.

Anyone with good character wants to give it another shot.

Little Nate just got caught up with some friends in college. That wasn’t his character.

Eclipse of the light of heaven, eclipse of God – such indeed is the character of the historic hour through which the world is now passing