It's always the good men who do the most harm in the world.
It’s the same with people who say, ‘Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger.’ Even people who say this must realize that the exact opposite is true. What doesn’t kill you maims you, cripples you, leaves you weak, makes you whiny and full of yourself at the same time. The more pain, the more pompous you get. Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you incredibly annoying.
It takes many good deeds to build a good reputation, and only one bad one to lose it.
Intelligence is so damn rare and the people who have it often have such a bad time with it that they get bitter or propagandistic and then it's not much use.
But you are the average of the five people you associate with most, so do not underestimate the effects of your pessimistic, unambitious, or disorganized friends. If someone isn't making you stronger, they're making you weaker.
No people do as much harm as those who go about doing good.
The resentment that criticism engenders can demoralize employees, family members and friends, and still not correct the situation that has been condemned.
Resentment always hurts you more than the person you resent.
Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
Severities should be dealt out all at once, so that their suddenness may give less offense. Benefits ought to be handed out drop by drop, so that they may be relished the more.
The evil that men do lives after them; the good is oft interred with their bones.
There has never been a protracted war from which a country has benefited.
My praise is perhaps an unforgivable poison.
The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason. There's also a negative side.
Actions can have unintended adverse consequences.
Doing something extraordinarily good is very hard to do and you could fail. Extraordinarily bad is easy to do - it's much easier to burn down a building than to build one.
A reputation once broken may possibly be repaired, but the world will always keep their eyes on the spot where the crack was.
It must be that evil communications corrupt good dispositions.
Where I feel something that I had written was misinterpreted in a way that made people feel bad, that is absolutely horrifying to me. I feel so embarrassed and I feel ashamed that I should make people feel bad.
No small misery is caused by overworked and unhappy people, in the dark views which they necessarily take up themselves, and force upon others, of work itself.
It's very alienating to become a target, and it can be really difficult to try and explain to people, to family members.
ObamaCare is creating nothing but misery for everybody.
No man is hurt but by himself.
We have to make some radical move to get the attention of everyone. Cheaters can't win and steroids has put us in the position that it's OK to cheat.
Trouble can often be traced to a single strong individual — the stirrer, the arrogant underling, the poisoner of goodwill. If you allow such people room to operate, others will succumb to their influence. Do not wait for the troubles they cause to multiply, do not try to negotiate with them — they are irredeemable. Neutralize their influence by isolating or banishing them. Strike at the source of the trouble and the sheep will scatter.
