This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
Americans often pride themselves on being members of the largest, most enduring, and most successful democracy in the world. Yet their lives, to a great degree, are channeled, shaped, and determined by the decisions of a very few people sitting in the board rooms and executive suites of the giant corporations, over whom they exercise little control.
There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.
There is no exercise better for the heart than reaching down and lifting people up.
Nancy Moser, born Nancy Etta Lynette Jeffrey
Characters live to be noticed. People with character notice how they live.
Ability may get you to the top, but it takes character to keep you there.
Small kindnesses, small courtesies, small considerations, habitually practiced in our social intercourse, give a greater charm to the character than the display of great talents and accomplishments.
Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.
Character | Education | Intelligence |
In general the character tradition assumes that institutions such as families, schools, and long-lived organizations will act more wisely than individuals and also that individuals who have lived through a variety of experiences have learned things that many young people do not yet know.
Abigail Van Buren, pen name for Pauline Phillips and now daughter Jeanne Phillips
The best index to a person's character is (a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back.