Shyness has a strange element of narcissism, a belief that how we look, how we perform, is truly important to other people.

André Dubus

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment.

Benjamin Franklin

The grateful person, being still the most severe exacter of himself, not only confesses, but proclaims, his debts.

Robert South (1634-1716)

Honesty is the best policy. If I lose mine honor, I lose myself.

William Shakespeare

Humility, that low, sweet root from which all heavenly virtues shoot.

Thomas Moore