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That free will was demonstrated in the placing of temptation before man with the command not to eat of the fruit of the tree which would give him a knowledge of good and evil with the disturbing moral conflict to which that awareness would give rise.

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It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

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.

They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason.

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue but moderation in principle is always a vice.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

The depressing thing about tennis is that no matter how good I get I'll never be as good as a wall.

I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did why in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

A retentive memory may be a good thing but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg but with two it will be able to walk and get around.

If you're married and you have a wife and you really love your wife is it good enough to only say to your wife 'I love her' the day you get married? Or should you tell her every single day when you wake up and every opportunity? And that's how I feel about my relationship with Jesus Christ is that it is the most important thing in my life.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

It is not enough to have a good mind the main thing is to use it well.

A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.

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.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Be true to the game because the game will be true to you. If you try to shortcut the game then the game will shortcut you. If you put forth the effort good things will be bestowed upon you. That's truly about the game and in some ways that's about life too.

I know you've heard it a thousand times before. But it's true - hard work pays off. If you want to be good you have to practice practice practice. If you don't love something then don't do it.

If you go to work on your goals your goals will go to work on you. If you go to work on your plan your plan will go to work on you. Whatever good things we build end up building us.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself the other appreciates what others can understand the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent the second good and the third kind useless.

I believe in Karma. If the good is sown the good is collected. When positive things are made that returns well.