To have ego means to believe in your own strength. And to also be open to other people's views. It is to be open, not closed. So, yes, my ego is big, but it's also very small in some areas. My ego is responsible for my doing what I do - bad or good. Barbra Streisand
The only good luck many great men ever had was being born with the ability and determination to overcome bad luck. Channing Pollock
A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good. T. S. Eliot
It's not vanity to feel you have a right to be beautiful. Women are taught to feel we're not good enough, that we must live up to someone else's standards. But my aim is to cherish myself as I am. Elle Macpherson
I hope I am remembered by my children as a good father. Orson Scott Card
To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it. Leo Tolstoy
Greek philosophy seems to have met with something with which a good tragedy is not supposed to meet, namely, a dull ending. Karl Marx
It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration. Edsger Dijkstra
Clever men are good, but they are not the best. Thomas Carlyle
For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad. Thomas Carlyle
Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice. Fiona Apple
Good breeding differs, if at all, from high breeding only as it gracefully remembers the rights of others, rather than gracefully insists on its own rights. Thomas Carlyle
You have to have been a Republican to know how good it is to be a Democrat. Jackie Kennedy
I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect. J. Michael Straczynski
I've run into some S.O.B. directors, but I gave them back as good as I got. Carroll O'Connor
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter - a soothing, calming influence on the mind, rather like a good armchair which provides relaxation from physical fatigue. Henri Matisse
The bad fortune of the good turns their faces up to heaven the good fortune of the bad bows their heads down to the earth. Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best. Kin Hubbard
Being stubborn can be a good thing. Being stubborn can be a bad thing. It just depends on how you use it. Willie Aames
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. Flannery O'Connor