I always kind of thought I want to be a good person, I want to be right to my fellow men and love them like we're supposed to.
The responsibility for good government lies not just with governments themselves but also with every other part of the system they operate in, including media, non-governmental organisations and the public.
Having been an educator for so many years I know that all a good teacher can do is set a context, raise questions or enter into a kind of a dialogic relationship with their students.
My mother had a horrific life. At fourteen, she was in the Nazi concentration camps. Her sense about life now is, every day above ground is a good day.
I was a better writer when I was teaching. I was constantly going over the basics and constantly reminding myself, as I reminded my students, what made a good story, a good poem.
This last year I kind of stopped working out. I think my body just needed a break. And so I did that, and focused more on feeling good as opposed to beating myself up.
Good nature is worth more than knowledge, more than money, more than honor, to the persons who possess it.
The economy is much bigger than the market. We will not be able to build a good economy - nor a good society - unless we look at the vast expanse beyond the market.
That's what a good crime novelist - any good novelist - should do with you: play with your perceptions while showing you everything in plain sight.
What's important is to be able to see yourself, I think, as having commonality with other people and not determine, because of your good luck, that everybody is less significant, less interesting, less important than you are.
You don't come home from the office to spend time with another job. Hopefully you come home to someone you can have a good time with.
If I know you're very good in music, I can predict with just about zero accuracy whether you're going to be good or bad in other things.
These natives are a very good people; for when they saw that I would not remain, they supposed that I was afraid of their bows; and, taking their arrows, the broke them in pieces and threw them into the fire.
My folks were raised pure prohibitionist. They were very good people, with high moral standards - but very repressed. There was no hugging and kissing in my home.
I have many golfer friends whom I play with, including my good friend Ian Poulter, a professional golfer who's coming to Asia to play in a few tournaments.
You don't learn from good people - they've found what works for them and are completely original; you learn from the people who are bad. You think: 'Oh dear, I'm not going to do that.'
I think we need to maintain the good relationship between the people of Egypt and the people of the United States.
There is no way I could ever look somebody in the eye and say that I can make them feel good about the fact that they are losing their job.
Do not be too moral. You may cheat yourself out of much life so. Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.
As for doing good; that is one of the professions which is full. Moreover I have tried it fairly and, strange as it may seem, am satisfied that it does not agree with my constitution.
I adapt to things quickly, including good things, which I wish I could shut off sometimes.
