“No extended definition of good is necessary to those who follow Jesus; even converted savages understand good and do it.”

“Those who have suffered understand suffering and therefore extend their hand.”

“The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.”

“If understanding followed no rule at all, there would be no good in the understanding nor in the matter understood, and to remain in ignorance would be the greatest good.”

“All those rappers, they're the only glamorous people working in music now. The rock bands are rather drab, even the good ones. You definitely don't want to look at them. But some of those R&B people are very good.”

“He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.”

“It is always necessary that the substance or essence of a person be good before there can be any good works and that good works follow and proceed from a person who is already good. Christ says in Matthew 7:18: “A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.”… The fruit does not make the tree good or bad but the tree itself is what determines the nature of the fruit. In the same way, a person first must be good or bad before doing a good or bad work.”

“You have to do stuff that average people don't understand because those are the only good things.”

“Good morning to those who dare, those who do not get tired, who never give up.”

“Anyone who is too lazy to master the comparatively small glossary necessary to understand Chaucer deserves to be shut out from the reading of good books forever.”