If the critics are right that I've made all my decisions based on polls, then I must not be very good at reading them.
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. And if you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
When you are angry or frustrated, what comes out? Whatever it is, it's a good indication of what you're made of.
Few people have the wisdom to prefer the criticism that would do them good, to the praise that deceives them.
Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.
The opportunity for doing mischief is found a hundred times a day, and of doing good once in a year.
Death is a commingling of eternity with time in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking through time.
When you are older you will understand how precious little things, seemingly of no value in themselves, can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.
In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.
When bad men combine, the good must associate else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
When I woke up this morning my girlfriend asked me, 'Did you sleep good?' I said 'No, I made a few mistakes.'
Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.
Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.
My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.
A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.
And finally I twist my heart round again, so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside, and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be, and could be, if there weren't any other people living in the world.
The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.
I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man, I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game, especially these days.
Good character is not formed in a week or a month. It is created little by little, day by day. Protracted and patient effort is needed to develop good character.
Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
It seems to never occur to fools that merit and good fortune are closely united.
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage.
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.
In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.
Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.
It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.
Good management is the art of making problems so interesting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them.
If there is such a thing as a good marriage, it is because it resembles friendship rather than love.
The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom.
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
I am in politics because of the conflict between good and evil, and I believe that in the end good will triumph.
As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.