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

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

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.

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.

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

I didn't decide I was crazy until 1952. That's when I began making a steady salary and could afford to be crazy.

Bonnaroo is the most significant festival in the country. I can sometimes just get caught up in the moment and listening and say, 'Oops, I gotta go sing now.'

The sharp employ the sharp.

I wrote a novel, Ghost Road Rules, and as soon as it was done and polished, I began reaching out to agents. I ignored the frequent advice to 'shoot low and try for a low-level agent because they're the only ones that will take a flyer on a new author.' That sounded like bad advice to me.

I'm 10-12 years into life as an out gay man, and I'm a different person. I think there are things about my journey that might be useful to other people, and coming up with a hit record on its own doesn't seem to be enough anymore.

I think, for one thing, all of us remember those teenage years and those songs that we fell in love with and the music scene that we were part of. So, in a certain way, music cuts through time like almost nothing else. You know, it makes us feel like we're back in an earlier moment.

Every struggle you overcome, will build the strength of your spirit.

If you follow the lead of the artists they will take you places that you could never go on your own.

Many exceedingly rich men are unhappy, but many middling circumstances are fortunate.

From birth to death, anyone can fish. I just think it's fantastic to see old people going fishing with young people and teaching them things. I'm very, very critical.

History will judge us by the difference we make in the everyday lives of children.

There's a certain amount of freedom involved in cycling: you're self-propelled and decide exactly where to go. If you see something that catches your eye to the left, you can veer off there, which isn't so easy in a car, and you can't cover as much ground walking.

I was growing up in the 50's and 60's. Back then they didn't even know what dyslexia was.

Winter lies too long in country towns; hangs on until it is stale and shabby, old and sullen.

You do not become smarter by blowing your own horn. You become smarter by being humble.

The mission of '8 Mile' is essentially to garner sympathy for a white rapper involved in an old-school shootout - a rap contest. This may be the final frontier for pop, more unbelievable than the prospect of launching a member of 'N Sync into orbit.

There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.

Dr. King's famous 'I Have a Dream' speech was delivered at 'The March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom,' a call to justice beyond the traditional civil rights movement's focus.

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

I once stood in the middle of New York city watching my name go round the electronic zipper sign in Times Square and I felt pretty thrilled, but not quite as thrilled as I felt when I saw my name in the 'Examiner' for the first time.

There's a certain amount of disorder that has to be reorganized.

He that has no cross will have no crown.

The forest did not tolerate frailty of body or mind. Show your weakness, and it would consume you without hesitation.