Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You deserve delight.

Feeling good about government is like looking on the bright side of any catastrophe. When you quit looking on the bright side, the catastrophe is still there.

Never be discouraged. If I were sunk in the lowest pits of Nova Scotia, with the Rocky Mountains piled on me, I would hang on, exercise faith, and keep up good courage, and I would come out on top.

Chemistry can be a good and bad thing. Chemistry is good when you make love with it. Chemistry is bad when you make crack with it.

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine.

Say no more than yes, and just make sure you surround yourself with good people.

The word good has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

Compromise is but the sacrifice of one right or good in the hope of retaining another - too often ending in the loss of both.

Ten percent of the big fish still remain. There are still some blue whales. There are still some krill in Antarctica. There are a few oysters in Chesapeake Bay. Half the coral reefs are still in pretty good shape, a jeweled belt around the middle of the planet. There is still time, but not a lot, to turn things around.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.

If you stand up and be counted, from time to time you may get yourself knocked down. But remember this: A man flattened by an opponent can get up again. A man flattened by conformity stays down for good.

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

I am glad that I paid so little attention to good advice had I abided by it I might have been saved from some of my most valuable mistakes.

We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.

Anyone who proposes to do good must not expect people to roll stones out of his way, but must accept his lot calmly, even if they roll a few stones upon it.

Perhaps it is good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he is happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

We seldom find any person of good sense, except those who share our opinions.

There is something good in all seeming failures. You are not to see that now. Time will reveal it. Be patient.

Men and women of every faith and good people with none at all sincerely strive to do right and lead a purpose-driven life.