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Character is power; it makes friends, draws patronage and support and opens the way to wealth, honor and happiness.

I think character is very much a product of where you live, who you are, what is happening in that time of your life, and I'm interested in those pressures, those forces. A political context, a social context, really determines if not who people are then how they treat one another and what they say, how they speak.

Character is the result of two things: mental attitude and the way we spend our time.

Character is the ability to carry out a good resolution long after the excitement of the moment has passed.

Character matters; leadership descends from character.

Character is the ability of a person to see a positive end of things. This is the hope that a man of character has.

Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

As the character talks and moves, the world around him is slowly revealed, just like dollying a camera back for a wider look at things. So all my stories start with a character, and that character introduces setting, culture, conflict, government, economy... all of it, through his or her eyes.