I found this post on a trading message board and found it excellent and wanted to share it with you. I'm not the author.

You have but one good name in this world, and if you subject yourself to the temptations of money and fame at the expense of integrity, the dark side is unbelievably deep.

I'm sitting here trying to fathom the pain that his family, his sons, and his investors are feeling, and it is really impossible.

I had a conversation with Dr. Bryne two nights ago, and he told me something I have believed. These guys have opened up Pandora's box. The Wall Streeters never expected this to get this out of hand. They have destroyed millions of lives, trillions of dollars. The fear and hate that are building endanger all of us. And they have put our ability to make a living in this business at great peril.

Remember Thursday for the rest of your lives. What you do does effect others, and you have to live with that.

There are plenty of riches to be had as an honest man. Avail yourself of that path, and you can sit back, enjoy, counsel others, and hold your head high.

Bernie Madoff has been living in private fear and shame for a long time. He'll be dead soon. The stress will kill him, or he'll take his own life. Of course, there is always the possibility that someone, whose life he stole, will avenge that deed. I hope not. Enough lives are already destroyed.