Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes

I'd rather win two or three, lose one, win two or three more. I'm a great believer in things evening out. If you win a whole bunch in a row, somewhere along the line you're going to lose some too.

A great amount of good is always evened out by a great amount of bad. I find it's best to acknowledge that weird balance.

It's like life: you have both comedy and drama. There's a balance, and I'm lucky enough to have it in my work.

The world is, was, will always be filled with good and evil, because good and evil is the yin and yang of the human condition.

I think that there are good things that happen and bad things that happen.

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

I pinch myself daily at the good fortune of my life, you know, in many ways.

Everything's very perfectly balanced; for all the horrible things in the world there's lots of good things.

As I look back on the last few decades of my life, I am struck by the good fortune that came my way.

Life is dramatic and comedic at times. Sometimes in the most dramatic situations, there is comedy. And good comedy comes from a sense of reality.

In my life, there have always been people who guided my path, towards the school, towards this company. I didn't know about any of it. I didn't have a plan. It's good fortune and generosity from other people that have given me all I have today.

Life is strange. Every so often a good man wins.

Good luck happens to people who work hard for it. Sometimes people just fall into the honey pot, but I've consistently strived to create whatever good fortune I can get in my life - and consistently strive just as hard not to screw it up once I have it!

My success and my misfortunes, the bright and the dark days I have gone through, everything has proved to me that in this world, either physical or moral, good comes out of evil just as well as evil comes out of good.

I feel I have been protected all my life. I am still here, for God's sake, and a lot of my contemporaries have gone. I'm very fortunate. No matter the difficulties - and we all have difficulties - I am definitely one of the fortunate ones. If I have any really good characteristics, one is that I am resilient.

No one is all good or all bad, and there's many different ways to go about your life.

I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.

Out of all things bad, something good. Out of all things good, something bad.

It's always a balance, and sometimes I'm on the good side of that scale, and sometimes I'm on the bad side.

I think that there's a little bit of bad in all of us.

All my books are an inquiry into the nature of evil. Why do good people do bad things? Are any human beings completely evil? Do we all have good within us? That's what I'm interested in.

Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but of playing a poor hand well.

In life, there's a ying and a yang and a balance. And when you don't have balance, you have comedy.

Everything has good and bad.

The same qualities that we all have that are good can lead us to bad things or lead us into a crisis if we don't try to balance them.