La alegría de hacer bien está en sembrar, no en recoger.

Buscando el bien de nuestros semejantes, encontramos el nuestro.

No puedes obligarte a ti mismo a sentir algo que no sientes, pero si puedes obligarte a hacer el bien, a pesar de lo que sientes

El único símbolo de superioridad que conozco es la bondad.

El bien que hemos hecho nos da una satisfacción interior, que es la más dulce de todas las pasiones.

Todo acto de bondad es una demostración de poderío.

Bueno es dar cuando nos piden; pero mejor es dar sin que nos pidan, como buenos entendedores.

La bondad es la única inversión que nunca quiebra.

Sobre todo sé bueno: la bondad, más que ninguna otra cosa, es lo que mejor desarma a los hombres.

Un acto de bondad es por sí mismo un acto de felicidad.

Dar la felicidad y hacer el bien, he ahí nuestra ley, nuestra ancla de salvación, nuestro faro, nuestra razón de ser.

La bondad es lo que importa, pues es el bálsamo que pone un poco de suavidad en cualquier amarga llaga

No debemos lamentar nunca el tiempo que hemos empleado en proceder bien.

Si hago una buena obra, me siento bien; y si obro mal, me encuentro mal. Esta es mi religión.

Son las almas bellas las únicas que saben lo que hay de grande en la bondad

Una prueba de la propia bondad está en confiar en la bondad de los demás.

Una de las ventajas de las buenas acciones es la de elevar el alma y disponerla a hacer otras mejores.

La humanidad habría desaparecido hace mucho tiempo si la bondad no habitara en los seres humanos

El bien es lento porque va cuesta arriba. El mal es rápido porque va cuesta abajo.

Querer llegar a ser bueno es gran parte de la bondad.

Que el hombre sea noble, caritativo y bueno, puesto que sólo esto lo distingue de todos los otros seres.

Cuando veas un hombre bueno, piensa en imitarlo; cuando veas uno malo, examina tu propio corazón.

El mejor homenaje que puede tributarse a las personas buenas es imitarlas.

La ciencia moderna aún no ha producido un medicamento tranquilizador tan eficaz como lo son unas pocas palabras bondadosas.

Nadie puede hacer el bien en un espacio de su vida, mientras hace daño en otro. La vida es un todo indivisible.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I've never played a gay character on screen, so that would be interesting. I've never played a gay character, and that would fascinate me because I'm not gay, so that would interest me.

I have an orthopedic pillow that's made out of a sponge material. I have a plate in my throat, and I have to be careful or I could end up with a bad neck in the morning. That pillow is a must everywhere I go.

It is more difficult to give money away intelligently than to earn it in the first place.

Once we accept violence as an adaptation, it makes sense that its expression is calibrated to the environment. The same individual will behave differently if he comes of age in Detroit, Mich., versus Windsor, Ontario; in New York in the 1980s versus New York now; in a culture of honor versus a culture of dignity.

You know when you're writing, and it's just you and the computer screen, and you never think that anyone is ever going to read it... you're able to say private things when you're writing.

I have had every hair color. I joke with my hair colorist. She keeps sheets of paper on every hair color that I've had, so she has records of it all. She's done my hair since I was 15, and I guess I have a thick folder going because I've had so many different hair colors.

Sweet, delicious Dungeness crab is always a treat.

We are like boxers, one never knows how much longer one has.

I'm a pretty active person. I love yoga, crossfit, Zumba, and got to get that occasional hike in at Runyon Canyon when I can. I also love mentoring youth.

I have a very deep care for Latin America, and, of course, for what was going on in El Salvador.

I'm a fighter. I'm a lover.

Wherever I go throughout the world - no matter the language, no matter the culture - I thrill to hear the testimonies of the Saints.

The kind of roles which you get, people identify with your roles, and it then leads to the kind of brands you get.

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

I made a very conscious effort to finish 'The Cypress House' before 'So Cold the River' launched, because I thought that would help build a buffer between my writing and any impact that came from either the success or the failure of that first book.

Woman is sacred the woman one loves is holy.

Once you have made the decision to do the film, once you have identified the desire and all the deep and personal, intimate, artistic reasons why you want to do the film, then it's more a matter of how to do things.

The difference between 'lighght' and another type of poem with more words is that it doesn't have a reading process. Even a five-word poem has a beginning, middle, and end. A one-word poem doesn't. You can see it all at once. It's instant.

Map out your future - but do it in pencil. The road ahead is as long as you make it. Make it worth the trip.

In business, you're the Chief Salesman. Create a sense of demand, rather than waiting to have demand.

I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.

I think all parents have a double life.