Being good in just one thing it’s not enough, you have to be sufficiently good in everything.
Well-meaning, helpful, good-natured attitudes of mind have not come to be honored on account of their usefulness, but because they are states of richer souls that are capable of bestowing and have their value in the feeling of the plenitude of life.
I mean the only thing us dead soldiers got in common is that none of us was good enough or lucky enough to survive the fight. We're a host of failures.
Create turf, save water. Those are the two main principles. And, you know, keep everything alive. Maintain a game habitat. That's important so that you have an entire system at work. Cattle are going to do better, oddly enough, if the birds are doing good and the deer are doing good. You try to manage the whole thing.
It is a sad thing when men have neither enough intelligence to speak well, nor enough sense to hold their tongues; this is the root of all impertinence.
Well, I just want him to grow up happy. That's the main thing.
Homo sapiens, although not a saint but is good enough. We have what we have. The main thing is that there is a great chance to upbringing and create a new kind of human – Homo humanus, the Human humane.
Honesty is the best policy, I will stick to that. The good shall have my hand and heart, but the bad neither foot nor fellowship. And in my mind, the main point of governing, is to make a good beginning.
The danger in trying to do good is that the mind comes to confuse the intent of goodness with the act of doing things well.
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.