"There is some soul of goodness in things evil, would men observingly distill it out."

-- Shakespeare

"To be good and to do good -- that is the whole of religion."

-- Swami Vivekananda

"Perhaps doing in order to be good is what keeps you from realizing that you are already good."

-- Cheri Huber

"Good men, at all times, surrender in truth all attachments."

-- Buddha

"For the good man to realize that it is better to be whole than to be good is to enter on a straight and narrow path compared to which his previous rectitude was flowery license."

-- John Middleton Murray