I have friends and family that are filled with massive amounts of integrity. And it shouldn't be an oddity.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect

No man knows the value of innocence and integrity but he who has lost them.

“It is very extraordinary, if the head of the money department of a country, being unprincipled enough to sacrifice his trust and his integrity, could not have contrived objects of profit sufficiently large to have engaged the co-operation of men of far greater importance than Reynolds, and with whom there could have been due safety, and should have been driven to the necessity of unkennelling such a reptile to be the instrument of his cupidity.”

"Sir, he throws away his money without thought and without merit. I do not call a tree generous that sheds its fruit at every breeze."

"My ambition is handicapped by laziness"

"To make it more familiar to me, I ended up treating my swordplay scenes like choreography. So it was, 'One and two and three and four and five, and turn and step and down and up and lunge.'"

"To wait, for an actor, is not like someone who's waiting to see the doctor. It's not the kind of wait where you get bored."

"Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness."

"The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling."

"You must consider the bottom line, but make it integrity before profits."

"A life lived with integrity - even if it lacks the trappings of fame and fortune is a shinning star in whose light others may follow in the years to come."

“The impossible often has a kind of integrity to it which the merely improbable lacks.” 

The impossible often has a kind of integrity which the merely improbable lacks.

The honorary duty of a human being is to love.

“Suddenly, it seems ridiculous that we just came from a city airport named for Columbus, a terrible navigator who insisted to his dying day that he was in India—which is why people here are called Indians. As the Native women in Houston said, “It could have been worse—he could have thought he was in Turkey.” 

And when it rains on your parade, look up rather than down. Without the rain, there would be no rainbow.

There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the way, and not starting.

A woman who cannot be ugly is not beautiful.

There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.

My family was a poor farming family, and we lived under absolute segregation.

If your culture doesn't like geeks, you are in real trouble.