Man is a credulous animal and must believe something in the absence of good grounds for belief he will be satisfied with bad ones.

Hope is a state of mind not of the world. Hope in this deep and powerful sense is not the same as joy that things are going well or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet namely a dull ending.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

I don't believe that old cliche that good things come to those who wait. I think good things come to those who want something so bad they can't sit still.

A good artist should be isolated. If he isn't isolated something is wrong.

You know when something feels so good but you're afraid to feel good about it? So you kinda hold back? Everyone says Congratulations you must be so happy. And you say something stupid like I'm just doing what little I can with what little I have.

Always read something that will make you look good if you die in the middle of it.

It is no good getting furious if you get stuck. What I do is keep thinking about the problem but work on something else. Sometimes it is years before I see the way forward. In the case of information loss and black holes it was 29 years.

I wasn't in school often enough to really belong to a 'clique ' but my friends all studied hard and got pretty good grades. They were good people with self-respect. I still like to be friends with people I admire something about I really believe that we become like the people we're surrounded by so I choose my friends carefully!

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

I question myself every day. That's what I still find motivating about this. I don't have the answers I don't pretend that I do just because I won the match. Just keep fighting and maybe something good happens.

The past is our definition. We may strive with good reason to escape it or to escape what is bad in it. But we will escape it only by adding something better to it.

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.

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.

A good listener is usually thinking about something else.

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

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.

There must always remain something that is antagonistic to good.

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.

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.

Be not simply good - be good for something.