If you don't think drugs have done good things for us then take all of your records tapes and CD's and burn them.

Many of you are well enough off that the tax cuts may have helped you. We're saying that for America to get back on track we're probably going to cut that short and not give it to you. We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good.

I have always believed and I still believe that whatever good or bad fortune may come our way we can always give it meaning and transform it into something of value.

And above all things never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.

It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them because in spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart.

Tomorrow is nothing today is too late the good lived yesterday.

Go to foreign countries and you will get to know the good things one possesses at home.

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

When you are older you will understand how precious little things seemingly of no value in themselves can be loved and prized above all price when they convey the love and thoughtfulness of a good heart.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

Nothing good ever comes of violence.

In life all good things come hard but wisdom is the hardest to come by.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

All good music resembles something. Good music stirs by its mysterious resemblance to the objects and feelings which motivated it.

People write negatives things cause they feel that's what sells. Good news to them doesn't sell.

Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are.

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.

There is no harm in repeating a good thing.

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.

Too much of a good thing can be taxing.

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.

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.

All good books have one thing in common - they are truer than if they had really happened.