The “shape” of your life—your words and actions—will shift in ways that affect the people around you. As those people change, the shift in their lives will affect the people around them. The pattern of integrity recurs in the same shape but at a larger scale. As a twig is to a branch is to a tree trunk, so one human’s integrity is to a couple’s, a family’s, a nation’s. This is how individuals and small groups may end up influencing huge numbers of people.