"Every book you pick up has its own lesson or lessons, and quite often the bad books have more to teach than the good ones."
"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing."
Edmund Burke on Good"It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come."
Dalai Lama on Good"If people are good only because they fear punishment, and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."
Albert Einstein on Good"Despite everything, I believe that people are really good at heart."
Anne Frank on Good"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."
Abraham Lincoln on Good"A lot of us grow up and we grow out of the literal interpretation that we get when we're children, but we bear the scars all our life. Whether they're scars of beauty or scars of ugliness, it's pretty much in the eye of the beholder."
"Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process."
"But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed."
"We like to think about how smart we are. But I think talent as a writer is hard-wired in, it's all there, at least the basic elements of it. You can't change it any more than you can choose whether to be right handed or left handed."
"I never saw any of my dad's stories. My mother said he had piles and piles of manuscripts."