A bland smile is like a green light at an intersection, it feels good when you get one, but you forget it the moment you're past it.
The problem with having a sense of humor is often that people you use it on aren't in a very good mood.
If you want that good feeling that comes from doing things for other folks then you have to pay for it in abuse and misunderstanding.
What does kissing really mean to me? To me, if you feel, when you kiss a girl, that certain feeling of all those dolphins, like, swimming through your blood stream, and you get those good tingles inside your stomach, I don't think there's any better feeling.
To understand me, you have to meet me and be around me. And then only if I'm in a good mood - don't meet me in a bad mood.
I used to be a real prince charming if I went on a date with a girl. But then I'd get to where I was likely to have a stroke from the stress of keeping up my act. I've since learned the key to a good date is to pay attention on her.
Some people thought we were presenting Archie as a false character. President Nixon thought we were making a fool out of a good man.
Under all speech that is good for anything there lies a silence that is better, Silence is deep as Eternity speech is shallow as Time.
The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.
I've turned down jobs because I've said, 'Honestly, I can't find my way in. I can't do it. I love you, as a director. I think the script is good. You deserve better than I think I can do.'
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
Why do I not seek some real good one which I could feel, not one which I could display?
Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones.
What is life? A madness. What is life? An illusion, a shadow, a story. And the greatest good is little enough for all life is a dream, and dreams themselves are only dreams.
One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.
To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good.
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am.
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending.
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration.
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.
Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights.
I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect.
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue.
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth.
Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining.
I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.
I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.
Fresh air is good if you do not take too much of it most of the achievements and pleasures of life are in bad air.
Always do good to others. Be selfless. Mentally remove everything and be free. This is divine life. This is the direct way to Moksha or salvation.