Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

If human beings are fundamentally good no government is necessary if they are fundamentally bad any government being composed of human beings would be bad also.

Laws are like sausages it is better not to see them being made.

Being in a rock band is about touring. It's about writing songs and it's about making records but it's also about taking a wonderful smile onto that stage and making the people feel good about themselves.

A people and their religion must be judged by social standards based on social ethics. No other standard would have any meaning if religion is held to be necessary good for the well-being of the people.

Being a good teammate is when you try to sprint down a ball that everyone thinks is going out of bounds. But you go after it anyways and you get it.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

You don't appreciate a lot of stuff in school until you get older. Little things like being spanked every day by a middle-aged woman: Stuff you pay good money for in later life.

I learnt a whole lot from my mother. About music relationships being a good person loving people the whole of life. I learnt about everything from her. Every single day I think about her. All through the day.

War is war. The only good human being is a dead one.

Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it.

The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck.

Far from idleness being the root of all evil it is rather the only true good.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment childhood memories and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

I don't think Christmas is necessarily about things. It's about being good to one another it's about the Christian ethic it's about kindness.

It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.

All human beings are commingled out of good and evil.

You can do more good by being good than any other way.

The good life is a process not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.

One of the sanest surest and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

There is in general good reason to suppose that in several respects the gods could all benefit from instruction by us human beings. We humans are - more humane.

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.

What good is it being Marilyn Monroe? Why can't I just be an ordinary woman?