We are all serving a life sentence, and good behavior is our only hope for a pardon.
Intelligence agencies keep things secret because they often violate the rule of law or of good behavior.
Liberty, as it is conceived by current opinion, has nothing inherent about it; it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behavior.
Show your kids that needs and wants are two different things. The best way to teach our kids to be smart consumers - and savvy savers - is to model good behavior for them.
Good behavior is the last refuge of mediocrity.
As every successful parent learns, one way to encourage good behavior, from room-cleaning to tooth-brushing, is to make it fun. Not surprisingly, the same principle applies to adults. Adults like to have fun, too.
Good TV is not just TV about good behavior.
My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.
Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards.
A good book is the precious lifeblood of a master spirit.
Your life story would not make a good book. Don't even try.
I wanted to go to Portland because it's a really good book town.
The first book really was kind of an entertaining textbook for the homemaker. I couldn't find a good book about entertaining in 1982, and neither could my friend, so I decided to write it.
I wanted to see if I could write a good book.
I don't like to be alone, but I do cherish the moments that I'm alone with a good book.
Most people travel with a good book, but I also keep my agenda with me; I'll flip through the pages and take a few moments to organize my life a little - I rarely get the time to do this normally.
The difference is this: If you write a good book, it'll get published. If you have a great screenplay, there is no guarantee.
If you're going to write a good book, you have to make mistakes and you have to not be so cautious all the time.
I love a good book. I'm not a club girl. I like hanging out and reading my books.
A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce one; in that of men of sense, a useful and instructive one.
