The respect that leadership must have requires that one's ethics be without question. A leader not only stays above the line between right and wrong, he stays well clear of the gray areas . Never, for the sake of peace and quiet, deny your own experience or convictions. Just as no worthy building can be erected on a weak foundation, so no lasting reputation worthy of respect can be built on a weak character. No man can climb out beyond the limitations of his own character.
Most talents are to some extent a gift.
Good character, by contrast, is not given to us. We have to build it piece by piece by thought, choice, courage and determination. Every man has three characters that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do. The gentleman does not needlessly and unnecessarily remind an offender of a wrong he may have committed against him.