We have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do.
It's better to feel sorry for doing something bad than to feel superior for doing something good.
. . . a great good is worth being long desired.
We should not be speaking to, but with. That is second nature to any good teacher.
I fight fairly, and in good faith.
I am going to have a cup of tea, like any good Englishman.
If you can walk away from a landing, it's a good landing. If you use the airplane the next day, it's an outstanding landing.
In the future it's very possible you could have an artificial intelligence system that can run the country better than a human being. Because human beings are naturally selfish. Human beings are naturally after their own interests. We are geared towards pursuing our own desires, but oftentimes, those desires have contrasts to the benefit of society, at large, or against the benefit of the greater good. Whereas, if you have a machine, you will be able to program that machine to, hopefully, benefit the greatest good, and really go after that.
If you do not enjoy what you are doing, you will never be good at it.
It's obviously a lot harder to try and be a good guy than it is to be a bad guy. The world is a fundamentally evil place, it seems like. So in order to be a good person, you have to fight temptation and vice.
I didn't even dream it would be so good. But I would never let my children come close to the thing.
the Empire State Building was tall. So what? Just proved New York builders didn't know when to stop at a good story.
Good roles are hard to find no matter what age.
Bad taste creates many more millionaires than good taste.
She wondered why they didn't understand that their true selfs were good enough, and if they weren't, then the someones they weren't good enough for, were really the ones not good enough.
The good thing about masturbation is that you don't have to get dressed up for it.
To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control, that can lead you to be shattered in very extreme circumstances for which you were not to blame. That says something very important about the condition of the ethical life: that it is based on a trust in the uncertain and on a willingness to be exposed; it’s based on being more like a plant than like a jewel, something rather fragile, but whose very particular beauty is inseparable from that fragility.
I thank God for happiness and sadnessIf you are never sad you will never know how good happiness is
While I find inspiration in real life, the actual stories are, thankfully, works of fiction - which, given the considerable turmoil in my character's lives, is probably a good thing!
In the works of Lucretius, we find two reasons why we shouldn't worry about death. If you have had a successful life, Lucretius tell us, there's no reason to mind its end. And, if you haven't had a good time, "Why do you seek to add more years, which would also pass but ill?"
