Principles

Rules are not necessarily sacred, principles are.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt

'Tis the business of little minds to shrink,
but they whose heart is firm,
and whose conscience approves their conduct,
will pursue their principles unto death.
- Thomas Paine

Important principles may, and must, be inflexible.
- Abraham Lincoln

We must adjust to changing times
and still hold to unchanging principles.
- Jimmy Carter

Further reading: Tending the Garden of Our Lives

Many Paths to Joy and Service

Kindness and Charity