“A successful story for me exist in a moral universe, not one where goodness always triumph, because that would be false but one with an inherent awareness of goodness”

“The good news is that at the essence of who and what we are there is a deep and fundamental goodness. Not the goodness that we've been taught, not like morally good, as opposed to morally bad, but something deeper - a goodness which is inherent in what we are.”

“For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain [and] the noise of battle. [It] has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.”

“Believe me, no one is completely good. Similarly, no one is completely evil. It depends on where you stand, and how you look at it. Protagonists and antagonists only exist in fiction.”

“Dark Helmet : So, Lone Star, now you see that evil will always triumph because good is dumb.”

“Academic excellency and moral of students should be achieved with integration because good morals directly will shape a conducive environment for students to achieve success.”

“What good would it be to possess the whole universe if one were its only survivor?”

“I may do some good before I am dead--be a sort of success as a frightful example of what not to do; and so illustrate a moral story.”

“In the best painting as in authentic poetry one is aware of moral pressures exerted.. choices are important, moral pressure exists to make right and wrong choices.”

“Even the existence of this corporeal element, low as it in reality is, because it is the source of death and all evils, is likewise good for the permanence of the Universe and the continuation of the order of things, so that one thing departs and the other succeeds.”