I would say a good leader brings results. A great leader writes a new story, it's different. Obviously a new story has to incorporate a lot of results. But a story is a chapter in the life of a company that people want to write and want to remember.
I don't believe novels should carry an obvious message. I don't want to write characters you can immediately say are good or bad; as in life, most people are a mixture.
I'm much softer than people think. I don't present to the world an emotional face. I'm pretty good at self-control, but I am easily moved.
I don't have role models or watch much TV. I go to awards ceremonies but often I don't even know who the people are. I think that's good, because then you don't have preconceived ideas about them.
Criswell: Eddie, we're in show biz. It's all about razzle-dazzle. Appearances. If you look good, and you talk well, people will swallow anything.
Maria: Lucas, look at this place. They're so busy in here. You get to go and do something. Go help people. You're good at it.
[A]s military history reveals, a bad plan is often better than no plan, especially if the people on the other side think it’s a good plan.
Every morning most of the people wake up alive than dead, so I do have a faith there is still some goodness left in the man.
A great majority of people have got really a good capacity and capability to forgive, but only and solely to own self and that too quite readily, rapidly, regularly and repeatedly.
Government should be a place where people can come together, and no one gets left behind. No one…gets left behind. An instrument of good.
A gold standard doesn't imply stability in the prices of the goods and services that people buy every day, it implies a stability in the price of gold itself.
Christmas and Easter can be subjects for poetry, but Good Friday, like Auschwitz, cannot. The reality is so horrible it is not surprising that people should have found it a stumbling block to faith.
More effective than giving away half my fortune before I die is finding a way to help people have a good-paying job.
You said I am a good man," he said. "But I am not that good a man. And I am--I am catastrophically in love with you.
I'm telling you, it's so exciting playing out there because I'm playing well, you have the crowd behind you, and it's such a good feeling. I'm really having a good time out there.
Good words cool more than cold water.
Good advice is often annoying -- bad advice never is.
When he was fifteen the devil was a good looking boy.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
Perform good deeds; you will not regret them.
A good life, they say, keeps wrinkles at bay.
