Atheists well understand that Christmas is the most visible display of religion in the world, and that any diminishment of it is a good thing to militant secularists.
Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.
I do feel that if you can write one good sentence and then another good sentence and then another, you end up with a good story.
I've always believed in people's capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What I'm not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness.
Only a bad artist thinks he has a good idea. A good artist does not need anything.
I don't believe that there's a good guy and a bad guy. Unless it's like Superman or Batman, there is no good guy and bad guy.
I grew up with another pretty darn good writer: Glenn Frey of the Eagles. We were very good friends, and we kind of studied it together.
Honesty is a good thing, but it is not profitable to its possessor unless it is kept under control.
I'm a good person, I hope. But I'm never as good as I want to be, never as nice as I want to be, never as generous as I want to be.
Sometimes good television doesn't depend on money, it depends on imagination and good people directing, casting and doing the job with talented people.
Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.
There is no better proof of a man's being truly good than his desiring to be constantly under the observation of good men.
The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.
Patience can be a good thing - but not necessarily. Sometimes it's not so bad to be impatient. I'm a little bit too polite.
I'm not a republican any more. Not so voraciously anyway - I'm not in favour of the concept of monarchy, but I do see the good in it if there's a good person in the role.
Good advice is one of those injuries which a good man ought, if possible, to forgive, but at all events to forget at once.
Gandalf's a good guy, and it's a good part. He says the right things, he believes the right things. An actor can have fun with it.
The hardest decisions in life are not between good and bad or right and wrong, but between two goods or two rights.
I could have begged. They made it obvious to me that if I wanted to come back and be a good boy... but I'd rather be in Roots than Good Times.
The chief ingredients in the composition of those qualities that gain esteem and praise, are good nature, truth, good sense, and good breeding.
Between good sense and good taste there lies the difference between a cause and its effect.
