No man or woman of the humblest sort can really be strong, gentle and good, without the world being better for it, without somebody being helped and comforted by the very existence of that goodness.
There is sorrow in the world, but goodness too; and goodness that is not greenness, either, no more than sorrow is.
Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be loved.
I would never describe Charlotte as a prude - maybe at the start, but that was in comparison to the other girls. She wasn't willing to do the stuff they were doing - and I mean, thank goodness!
I have good looking kids. Thank goodness my wife cheats on me.
True human goodness, in all its purity and freedom, can come to the fore only when its recipient has no power.
The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
It was one of those evenings when men feel that truth, goodness and beauty are one. In the morning, when they commit their discovery to paper, when others read it written there, it looks wholly ridiculous.
I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially.
My fellow Minnesotans join me in mourning the loss of America's 40th President and celebrating the life of a man who personified both the greatness and goodness of America.
Let grace and goodness be the principal loadstone of thy affections. For love which hath ends, will have an end; whereas that which is founded on true virtue, will always continue.
Never esteem men on account of their riches or their station. Respect goodness, find it where you may.
For the sake of goodness and love, man shall let death have no sovereignty over his thoughts.
Goodness knows the Republican electorate is a pretty narrow slice of the population.
You just couldn't be in George Romney's presence without some of his goodness and integrity wearing off on you.
Our surest protection against assault from abroad has been not all our guards, gates and guns, or even our two oceans, but our essential goodness as a people. Our richest asset has been not our material wealth but our values.
There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.
Goodness does not more certainly make men happy than happiness makes them good.
Goodness makes greatness truly valuable, and greatness makes goodness much more serviceable.
Goodness means the highest degree of popularity.
You can walk through life believing in the goodness of the world, or walk through life afraid of anyone who thinks different than you and trying to convert them to your way of thinking.
Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness.
It's better to be good than evil, but one achieves goodness at a terrific cost.
It is the spread of the good things that vindicates the whole reason we live our lives in networks. If I was always violent to you or gave you germs, you would cut the ties to me and the network would disintegrate. In a deep and fundamental way, networks are connected to goodness, and goodness is required for networks to emerge and spread.
When I was doing 'Smile,' I was looking back at pictures of myself and going, 'Thank goodness I couldn't do the sprayed-bangs thing! Everybody's so embarrassed by that hairstyle now, but I was never cool enough to pull it off!'
After the knowledge of, and obedience to, the will of God, the next aim must be to know something of His attributes of wisdom, power, and goodness as evidenced by His handiwork.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
Well, all I can say is thank goodness I had 15 years of theater before ever I did film roles. You build technique that you can rely on.
When there is life and mankind, a person will live striving for good deeds, liberty and a bright life, and wish that goodness and justice will reign in the world.
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.
The focus of tolerance education is to deal with the concept of equality and fairness. We need to establish confidence with children that there is more goodness than horror in this world.
That in man which cannot be domesticated is not his evil but his goodness.
Schultz is not a Nazi. I see Schultz as the representative of some kind of goodness in any generation.
Very few editors worry about heresy - their goals are much too commercial, thank goodness.
Wisdom has its root in goodness, not goodness its root in wisdom.
