With all our sophistication, the remarkable fact is that the Ten Commandments are more or less all we need.

Integrity: The leader's life and words match. Justice: The leader rejects dishonest gain. Convictions: The leader's values won't allow him or her to accept bribes. Positive focus: The leader refuses to dwell on destructive issues. Pure: The leader disciplines his or her mind to remain clean and pure. Secure: The leader is firm, stable in his identity and source of strength. The Maxwell Leadership Bible

Men do not differ much about what things they will call evils; they differ enormously about what evils they will call excusable.

No man is above the law, and no man is below it.

Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anyone else expects of you. Never excuse yourself.

The moral disapprobation of society has an impact on behavior in societies.

What's fair ain't necessarily right

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

No public man can be just a little crooked. There is no such thing as a no-man's land between honesty and dishonesty.

Law is twofold -- natural and written. The natural law is in the heart, the written law on tables. All men are under the natural law.

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken.

When happiness becomes our standard for judging truth, things that make us happy give us permission to do some things that otherwise would be considered wrong.