“He keeps his deepest belief tight to him: that people are good and want to be good, if only you give them a chance.”
Source: Arcadia
“When bad news is riding high and despair in fashion, when loud mouths and corruption seem to own center stage, when some keep crying that the country is going to the dogs, remember it’s always been going to the dogs in the eyes of some, and that 90 percent, or more, of the people are good people, generous-hearted, law-abiding, good citizens who get to work on time, do a good job, love their country, pay their taxes, care about their neighbors, care about their children’s education, and believe, rightly, as you do, in the ideals upon which our way of life is founded.”
Source: The American Spirit: Who We Are and What We Stand For
“To be a saint or a man of too good a nature in today's pragmatic world, with everyone out to get the other fellow, was equivalent to being a fool, wasn't it?”
Source: Wonderful Fool
“I don’t mean good like going to church or not breaking laws. If, in your heart, you try to get through the day
without hurting other people, then you are a good person...”
Source: Breaking Cover
“Goodness. Yeah, just plain, simple goodness. Well you can’t inherit that from anybody. You got to make it, Doc. If you want it. And you got to make it out of badness. Badness. And you know why, Doc?” He raised his bulk up in the broken-down wreck of an overstuffed chair he was in, and leaned forward, his hands on his knees, his elbows cocked out, his head outthrust and the hair coming down to his eyes, and stared into Adam’s face. “Out of badness,” he repeated. “And you know why? Because there isn’t anything else to make it out of.” Then, sinking back into the wreck, he asked, softly, “Did you know that, Doc?”
Source: All the King's Men
“Nobody deserves to be praised for goodness unless he is strong enough to be bad.”
“Ipak smo svi mi tek obični ljudi, i jedino što je važno to je da li je netko dobar ili nije.”
Source: Zaboravljeni sin
“Kindness is a magical spell—performed by enlightened beings—meant to enchant hearts and lift weary souls that they might fly.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Everyone will say I'm insane, but I don't care, Rose. Is it insane to marry the girl I love? A girl with golden brown hair, with gifts of beauty and goodness and storytelling?”
Source: The Healer's Apprentice
“A memorable heart is the easiest way to immortality.”
Source: Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem