Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.

Good manners sometimes means simply putting up with other people's bad manners.

People who have good relationships at home are more effective in the marketplace.

I am confident that in the end common sense and justice will prevail. I'm an optimist brought up on the belief that if you wait to the end of the story you get to see the good people live happily ever after.

Instead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning why don't 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.

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

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.

I don't know if high society is different in other cities but in Hollywood important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say 'We did it ourselves.'

As individuals people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

Those disputing contradicting and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory sometimes but they never get good will which would be of more use to them.

Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.

If one plays good music people don't listen and if one plays bad music people don't talk.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

Whatever words we utter should be chosen with care for people will hear them and be influenced by them for good or ill.

Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.

It is wonderful how much time good people spend fighting the devil. If they would only expend the same amount of energy loving their fellow men the devil would die in his own tracks of ennui.

The ultimate tragedy is not the oppression and cruelty by the bad people but the silence over that by the good people.

History will have to record that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition was not the strident clamor of the bad people but the appalling silence of the good people.

Good leaders make people feel that they're at the very heart of things not at the periphery.

What the people want is very simple - they want an America as good as its promise.

Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly while bad people will find a way around the laws.