In the final analysis, the questions of why bad things happen to good people transmutes itself into some very different questions, no longer asking why something happened, but asking how we will respond, what we intend to do now that it happened.
The good parts of a book may be only something a writer is lucky enough to overhear or it may be the wreck of his whole damn life and one is as good as the other.
We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a vine bears grapes season after season without thinking of the grapes it has borne.
I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.
No one would remember the Good Samaritan if he'd only had good intentions he had money as well.
It takes more than just a good looking body. You've got to have the heart and soul to go with it.
In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.
For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.
It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger after them.
To prefer evil to good is not in human nature and when a man is compelled to choose one of two evils, no one will choose the greater when he might have the less.
Our business in life is not to succeed, but to continue to fail in good spirits.
When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.
When you put down the good things you ought to have done, and leave out the bad ones you did do well, that's Memoirs.
Know one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good.
In all secrets there is a kind of guilt, however beautiful or joyful they may be, or for what good end they may be set to serve. Secrecy means evasion, and evasion means a problem to the moral mind.
Here is the rule to remember in the future, When anything tempts you to be bitter: not, 'This is a misfortune' but 'To bear this worthily is good fortune.'
I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.
You grow up a bit damaged or broken then you have some success but you don't know how to feel good about the work you're doing or the life you're leading.
Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.
The whole course of human history may depend on a change of heart in one solitary and even humble individual - for it is in the solitary mind and soul of the individual that the battle between good and evil is waged and ultimately won or lost.
People write negatives things, cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them, doesn't sell.
All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.
Treasure the love you receive above all. It will survive long after your good health has vanished.
If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.
I intend to fight and I want to win. But my priorities are basically to be a good Brother and a strong one, and to try to be a good father one day.
All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.