The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.

Fun is good.

Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

When I am good I am very, very good, but when I am bad, I am better.

I have always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Dusting is a good example of the futility of trying to put things right. As soon as you dust, the fact of your next dusting has already been established.

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

I would like to be remembered as a man who had a wonderful time living life, a man who had good friends, fine family - and I do not think I could ask for anything more than that, actually.

I have no desire to take all black people back to Africa there are blacks who are no good here and will likewise be no good there.

Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you do not know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

I like refried beans. That is why I wanna try fried beans, because maybe they are just as good and we are just wasting time. You do not have to fry them again after all.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why do not they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth.

To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.