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"If you disclose your alms, even then it is well done, but if you keep them secret, and give them to the poor, then that is better still for you; and this wipes off from you some of your evil deeds."
Koran
"If you want something very, very badly, let it go free. If it comes back to you, it's yours forever. If it doesn't, it was never yours to begin with."
Jesse Lair
"We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain."
Walter Savage Landor
"The highest goodness is like water. Water benefits all things and does not compete. It stays in the lowly places which others despise. Therefore it is near The Eternal."
Lao-Tzu
"Perpetual inspiration is as necessary to the life of goodness, holiness and happiness as perpetual respiration is necessary to animal life."
Andrew Bonar Law
"Go through your phone book, call people and ask them to drive you to the airport. The ones who will drive you are your true friends. The rest aren't bad people; they're just acquaintances."
Jay Leno
"When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil."
Max Lerner
"This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the victory lies not with those who avoid the bad, but those who taste, in living awareness, every drop of the good."
Victoria Lincoln
"The mere apprehension of a coming evil has put many into a situation of the utmost danger."
Lucan
"A man cannot do good before he is made good."
Martin Luther
"Love is an image of God, and not a lifeless image, but the living essence of the divine nature which beams full of all goodness."
Martin Luther
"An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it."
Count Maurice Maeterlink
"The heart's memory eliminates the bad and magnifies the good; and thanks to this artifice we manage to endure the burdens of the past."
Gabrid Garcia Marquez
"You are right on target when you say that mad scientists have a total disregard for the wellbeing of others. We don't want to spread evil; we just see no point in bothering to spread good."
Richard M. Mathews
"The value of money is that with it we can tell any man to go to the devil. It is the sixth sense which enables you to enjoy the other five."
W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
"There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish; to bewail it senseless."
W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
"The unfortunate thing about this world is that the good habits are much easier to give up than the bad ones."
W(illiam) Somerset Maugham
"You know, sometimes, when they say you're ahead of your time, it's just a polite way of saying you have a real bad sense of timing."
George Stanley McGovern
"I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not."
Mignon McLaughlin
"Beauty is the radiance of truth, and the frangrance of goodness."
Vincent McNabb
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