You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest.
Do unto others as you would have them do unto you, not forgetting to leave others be as you would have them leave you be.
Be careful of selfish motives. You can mistake them for principles and end up dying for them.
You must question a code of ethics that never impedes your progress.
Sometimes to do the right thing, we must keep a promise we never made.
I have fancied myself a rebel, but at every critical moment of my life, I have been exactly the child my parents raised.
There is an ongoing battle between conscience and self-interest in which, at some point, we have to take sides.