“No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to leave behind.”— Taylor Swift, taylorswift.com
“I want you to remember what was good in me, not what was most awful. The people you love should be allowed to keep their worst to themselves.”— Joe Hill, amazon.com
“There's a long road of suffering ahead of you. But don't lose courage. You've already escaped the gravest danger: selection. So now, muster your strength, and don't lose heart. We shall all see the day of liberation. Have faith in life. Above all else, have faith. Drive out despair, and you will kee…”— Elie Wiesel, amazon.com
“Perhaps he could not tell his greatness from ungreatness and so mixed them together that what was adulterated was lost.”— Robert Penn Warren, amazon.com
“My experience of men had long ago taught me that one of the surest ways of begetting an enemy was to do some stranger an act of kindness which should lay upon him the irritating sense of an obligation.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“I have been on the verge of being an angel all my life, but it's never happened yet.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com
“It would be absurd if we did not understand both angels and devils, since we invented them.”— John Steinbeck, amazon.com
“It's people like you, the good people, they always die. And the bad people do too. But the weak people, the people like me, we have inherited the earth.”— Rich Jepson, amazon.com
“We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.”— J. K. Rowling, amazon.com
“There is no good and evil, there is only power and those too weak to seek it.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Wicked people never have time for reading. It's one of the reasons for their wickedness.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that there is much more good in it than bad. All you have to do is look hard enough.”— Lemony Snicket, amazon.com
“Well, I think ‘likability’ is an overused word. I don’t watch people ’cause I like them; I watch them because they’re compelling. Sympathetic is a little different … Likable just thins you out. Working to make a character likable is what kills most TV shows.”— Louis C.K., vulture.com
“It is right to hope for the best about everybody, and not to expect the worst. This sounds like a truism, but it has comforted me before now, and some day you'll find it useful. One has always to try to think more of others than of oneself, and it is best not to prejudge people on the bad side.”— Elizabeth Gaskell, amazon.com