Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.
Keep true to the dreams of thy youth.
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right.
Maybe the most any of us can expect of ourselves isn't perfection but progress.
Life is a great big canvas; throw all the paint on it you can.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right - for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do, and damned if you don't.