Well Quotes

Oh, it’s always the same,’ she sighed, ‘if you want men to behave well to you, you must be beastly to them; if you treat them decently they make you suffer for it.

In many respects most of the books I write deal with well-known people. I think of those books as more about me than about those people.

He will only plant that seed where the conviction of his spirit has brought brokenness, where the soil has been watered with the tears of repentance as well as the tears of joy.

The only people we can think of as normal are those we don’t yet know very well.

Good art wounds as well as delights. It must, because our defenses against the truth are wound so tightly around us. But as art chips away at our defenses, it also opens us to healing potentialities that transcend intellectual games and ego-preserving strategies.

Well, you know, ‘Spaceballs’ is a weird combination, because it’s a simple, sweet little fairytale, and it’s crazy and out-there and making fun of and taking apart sci-fi, ‘Star Wars’, and ‘Star Trek’.

We got along very well without trying to make me look like I’m what I’m not.

I have always thought that a wild animal never looks so well as when some obstacle of pronounced durability is between us.

I was able to see what I wanted to do, I could see the opportunity, even when others could not, and I stay committed to doing it and doing it well, no matter what.

Not a tenth of us who are in business are doing as well as we could if we merely followed the principles that were known to our grandfathers.