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- Live your life as though there is great joy to be experienced... an abundance of goodness in each person you come in contact with, and the knowledge that you have enough inner wisdom to answer the mysteries that challenge you.
- Meladee McCarty
- Once you can laugh at your own weaknesses, you can move forward. Comedy breaks down walls. It opens up people. If you're good, you can fill up those openings with something positive. Maybe... combat some of the ugliness in the world.
- Goldie Hawn (1945 - )
- Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation, for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799)
- Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875 - 1926)
- Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life.
- Ralph W. Sockman
- A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man; it is what he wants and must have to be good for anything. Hardship and opposition are the native soil of manhood and self-reliance.
- John Neal
- The best index to a person's character is
(a) how he treats people who can't do him any good, and (b) how he treats people who can't fight back. - Abigail van Buren (1918 - )
- This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 - 1882)
- Say little, and love much; give all; judge no man; aspire to all that is pure and good.
- White Eagle
- The happiest excitement in life is to be convinced that one is fighting for all one is worth on behalf of some clearly seen and deeply felt good.
- Ruth Benedict (1887 - 1948)
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