I. J. Good Quotes

To vigorous men intimacy is a matter of shame--and something precious.

One is punished most for one’s virtues.

With hard men intimacy is a thing of shame- and something precious.

No matter how much you learn in college, it never prepares you for the real world.

There is no such thing as moral phenomena, but only a moral interpretation of phenomena

A soul that knows it is loved but does not itself love betrays its sediment: what is at bottom comes up."―Epigrams and Interludes, Section 79

One does not hate as long as one disesteems, but only when one esteems equal or superior

How you choose to live is one of the best indicators of the future you will have.

Lucifer, how, after a dozen millennia in Hell, could you possibly lose your way?" the Devil asked incredulously. "Well, " the lesser demon began, "It is a rather large place...

There's a quote of hers [Lucille Ball] that I've always loved: 'I guess I would rather regret the things I've done than to regret the things I've never done.

You will never truly know yourself, or the strength of your relationships, until both have been tested by adversity.

It is not a crime to commit First Degree Writing

How to preside over your own internal disorder? Finding the "I" that can represent the pack of you is the first challenge of the memoirist.

People who violate your boundaries are thieves. They steal time that doesn’t belong to them.

If you think you're unable to be on the cover of Time magazine, make your business to be there.

Do not say

Babbage had most of this system sketched out by 1837, but the first true computer to use this programmable architecture didn’t appear for more than a hundred years.

Planning gives you the opportunity to identify the tasks that will add the most value to attaining your outcomes.

When you are inspired, there is little you won’t attempt. Find what inspires you, and keep it around and with you always.

Surround yourself with things that inspire you every day. Let go of everything that drains your inspiration.

If you don't fall down now and again, it just means the training wheels are working

There's always someone we'd love to kill, the trick is to make it not look like an accident

I like gross generalizations...I also like disgusting specifics!

Focusing on effective leadership without focusing on a willingness to follow is like studying clapping by studying only the left hand.

The advantage which disciplined soldiers have over undisciplined hordes follows cheaply from the confidence which each man feels in his comrades. Charles Darwin

The narrator refers to a character as "an oily scoundrel whose hands were heavy with the money that stuck to them.

All those windows, and not a cat in them. All that light to bask in, wasted.

If a fox strangles a goose just to eat the brains, you wouldn’t say the fox killed the brains. You’d say the fox offed the goose.

To truly live a passionate life, develop habits and routines that engage you and enable you to express your passion each day.

Against the rules. She's on it, like a hound on a fox.'Her name is Annie.

The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum....

Maybe it's because he never had any control over what was happening to him as a boy. Being late was somehow a way of taking charge.

Like the rudder or anchor on a ship, your habits can guide you in the direction of your dreams or hold you back and keep you from achieving them.

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy

I write for ghosts

Bad guys have only one enemy: The Universe

Feed your mind with thoughts that inspire, motivate, encourage, empower, educate and instruct you by deliberately choosing the information you allow into your world through sight, sound and people.

Don’t kill yourself when your scorching sun intensifies

He leaned back in his seat throwing his hands behind his head

True ambition is trying to paint yourself out of a corner

For long-term success, invest 5-10% of your time each day and 5-10% of your income each month in increasing your wisdom.

Shitty values involve tangible external goals outside of our control. Better values are process-oriented.

I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.

You turned your head to the side. Faced me. Your eyes never left mine, I read them with ease. You said nothing to them, yet everything to me. I nodded.But only when no one was watching.

Investments are about the return they provide in increased opportunities, prosperity, health, wealth, happiness, joy, and success.

Anyone moderately familiar with the rigours of composition will not need to be told the story in detail

Once I make a decision, I stick to it.

- You gave me a dead frog for my birthday!- To remind you we all die and end up rotting underground eaten by maggots so we should enjoy our birthdays while we have them. I found it thoughtful.

Earthly things will pass away. They will pass away and what will be left is my Savior.

When things in the country are in the pits, start a war with somebody.