Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Our lives are not in the lap of the gods, but in the lap of our cooks.

Where there are too many policemen, there is no liberty. Where there are too many soldiers, there is no peace. Where there are too many lawyers, there is no justice.

If you can spend a perfectly useless afternoon in a perfectly useless manner, you have learned how to live.

Society can exist only on the basis that there is some amount of polished lying and that no one says exactly what he thinks.

Today we are afraid of simple words like goodness and mercy and kindness. We don't believe in the good old words because we don't believe in good old values anymore. And that's why the world is sick.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

The wise man reads both books and life itself.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

This I conceive to be the chemical function of humor: to change the character of our thought.

Peace of mind is that mental condition in which you have accepted the worst.

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his own, familiar pillow.

The more we justify our beliefs the more narrow minded we become.

By association with natures enormities a mans heart may truly grow big also.

The busy man is never wise and the wise man is never busy.

China is the greatest mystifying and stupefying fact in the modern world.

A cocktail party is a place where you talk with a person you do not know about a subject you have no interest in.

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.

It is not dirt but the fear of dirt which is the sign of mans degeneration and it is dangerous to judge a mans physical and moral sanity by outside standards.

Of all the rights of women the greatest is to be a mother.

Hope is like a road in the country there was never a road but when many people walk on it the road comes into existence.

Since the invention of the flush toilet and the vacuum carpet cleaner the modern man seems to judge a mans moral standards by his cleanliness and thinks a dog the more highly civilized for having a weekly bath and a winter wrapper round his belly.

A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in a futile wild-goose chase for imaginary ideals.

It is that unoccupied space which makes a room habitable, as it is our leisure hours which make life endurable.

Instead of holding on to the Biblical view that we are made in the image of God, we come to realize that we are made in the image of the monkey.

Of all the rights of women, the greatest is to be a mother.

Any good practical philosophy must start out with the recognition of our having a body.

There is something in the nature of tea that leads us into a world of quiet contemplation of life.

People who cease to believe in God or goodness altogether still believe in the devil. I don't know why. No, I do indeed know why. Evil is always possible. And goodness is eternally difficult.

Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.

I'd get 3-4 cheap home runs every year. You know, little 'wood shots' down either line. They would be pop flies in any other park. But, goodness me, they didn't count the number of long outs!

Every war results from the struggle for markets and spheres of influence, and every war is sold to the public by professional liars and totally sincere religious maniacs, as a Holy Crusade to save God and Goodness from Satan and Evil.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

Virtue is bold, and goodness never fearful.

May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

I think the most that I've learned has been, how do I put this? The innate goodness inside of all of us.

The way of a man's heart will be foreshadowed by what goodness lies in him - coming from above, and from around; but a way foreshadowed is not a way made.

There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.

Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.

Thank goodness I started getting movie roles and then television shows came along. So I was very fortunate to be able to do all three and I like all of them.

After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.

Truth is handsomer than the affectation of love. Your goodness must have some edge to it, else it is none.

From this it follows that con-sideration for other persons or for other living beings is very vital for goodness and want of consideration for other people makes human beings selfish, regardless for other people's good.

He has a number of curious facts in illustration of the power of mere goodness to protect against outrage.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.

In our open society, we are inclined to give to the less fortunate for the pure goodness of giving. We open our home to those who are alone on this holiday to spread some warmth into the life of another.