The humblest individual exerts some influence either for good or evil upon others.

It's a good thing I was born a girl otherwise I'd be a drag queen.

He that gives good advice builds with one hand he that gives good counsel and example builds with both but he that gives good admonition and bad example builds with one hand and pulls down with the other.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another it's about the Christian ethic it's about kindness.

Walk a mile in my shoes is good advice. Our children will learn to respect others if they are used to imagining themselves in another's place.

If one has a good disposition what other virtue is needed? If a man has fame what is the value of other ornamentation?

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards I should call him a good shot but not necessarily a good man.

I think a gentleman is someone who holds the comfort of other people above their own. The instinct to do that is inside every good man I believe. The rules about opening doors and buying dinner and all of that other 'gentleman' stuff is a chess game especially these days.

And finally I twist my heart round again so that the bad is on the outside and the good is on the inside and keep on trying to find a way of becoming what I would so like to be and could be if there weren't any other people living in the world.

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

In this country it is a good thing to kill an admiral from time to time to encourage the others.

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.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune.

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.

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.

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love therefore is its own reward.

I have no other view than to promote the public good and am unambitious of honors not founded in the approbation of my Country.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

One of the sanest surest and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

Any man may easily do harm but not every man can do good to another.

Manners are a sensitive awareness of the feelings of others. If you have that awareness you have good manners no matter what fork you use.

I don't know if high society is different in other cities but in Hollywood important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

What's the good of drawing in the next breath if all you do is let it out and draw in another?