If ‘character’ is who you are and what you do when no one is looking, then D L Moody is right: ‘Character is what you are in the dark’.  What is ‘character’?  What is good or bad?  What is your character?  Who is interested anyway?

Supposing you were asked to give a full character reference for someone, what would you include?  What if you had to give a genuine character reference for yourself?  Here’s a dictionary definition of ‘character’: ‘the total quality of a person’s behaviour, as revealed in his or her habits of thought and expression, actions and personal philosophy of life’.