“Nice to be here? At my age it's nice to be anywhere.”
“I used to be nice, but nice was boring. Nice hadn’t gotten me anywhere.”
“It's nice to be nice.”
“It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere.”
“It's nice to be important, but it's more important to be nice.”
“My father had taught me to be nice first, because you can always be mean later, but once you've been mean to someone, they won't believe the nice anymore. So be nice, be nice, until it's time to stop being nice, then destroy them.”