Real integrity stays in place whether the test in adversity or prosperity.
The ultimate foundation of honor is the conviction that moral character is unalterable: a single bad action implies that future actions of the same kind will, under similar circumstances, also be bad.
The men can have a moral compass that is just unshakeable, they can have ethics that run to the core.
These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.
I've made no pretence to be a modern man at all, ever.
The key to the ability to change is a changeless sense of who you are, what you are about and what you value.
To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.
