Category/Topic Name: Best

Prosperity is the best protector of principle.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.

It is not best that we should all think alike it is a difference of opinion that makes horse races.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.

The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself.

Power will intoxicate the best hearts, as wine the strongest heads. No man is wise enough, nor good enough to be trusted with unlimited power.

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

To all the positions, I just bring the determination to win. Me being an unselfish player, I think that can carry on to my teammates. When you have one of the best players on the court being unselfish, I think that transfers to the other players.

The best thing to do is stare it in the face and move on. We have to face our fears and plow through. I think taking chances takes a lot more courage than staying stagnant and doing what's safe and comfortable.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.

Sometimes when you innovate, you make mistakes. It is best to admit them quickly, and get on with improving your other innovations.

So let's not use a stylus. We're going to use the best pointing device in the world. We're going to use a pointing device that we're all born with - born with ten of them. We're going to use our fingers. We're going to touch this with our fingers. And we have invented a new technology called multi-touch, which is phenomenal. It works like magic.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

Punishment may make us obey the orders we are given, but at best it will only teach an obedience to authority, not a self-control which enhances our self-respect.

We have the best government that money can buy.

A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.

Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

We hire people who want to make the best things in the world.

If it's your job to eat a frog, it's best to do it first thing in the morning. And If it's your job to eat two frogs, it's best to eat the biggest one first.

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.

To refrain from imitation is the best revenge.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

The best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake.

But men are men the best sometimes forget.

'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

I have to live with both my selves as best I may.

Since we live in this world, we have to do our best for this world.

It is often said that second thoughts are best. So they are in matters of judgment but not in matters of conscience.

A majority is always better than the best repartee.

The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.

The large majority of the Negroes who have put on the finishing touches of our best colleges are all but worthless in the development of their people.

If I am a cup maker, I'm interested in making the best cup I possibly can. My effort goes into that cup, not what people think about it.

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

The best author will be the one who is ashamed to become a writer.

Maria is the best reason to come home.

No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.

We have an obligation and a responsibility to be investing in our students and our schools. We must make sure that people who have the grades, the desire and the will, but not the money, can still get the best education possible.

Being a blockhead is sometimes the best security against being cheated by a man of wit.

The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.

Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.

Humor is one of the best ingredients of survival.

Right actions in the future are the best apologies for bad actions in the past.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

One cannot develop taste from what is of average quality but only from the very best.

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty it is its own reward. Everything else is in God's hands.

Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?

There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.

In art the best is good enough.

Those men get along best with women who can get along best without them.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

It is with trifles, and when he is off guard, that a man best reveals his character.

The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.

Most of those who make collections of verse or epigram are like men eating cherries or oysters: they choose out the best at first, and end by eating all.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed, we're getting back to basics, and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

I rate Morrissey as one of the best lyricists in Britain. For me, he's up there with Bryan Ferry.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.

Mechanization best serves mediocrity.

At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame.

A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.

The best way to predict the future is to invent it.

No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.

I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax?

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.

Perhaps nature is our best assurance of immortality.

Hunger is the best pickle.

One of the best things that ever happened to me is that I'm a woman. That is the way all females should feel.

I don't believe the most successful people are the ones who got the best grades, got into the best schools, or made the most money.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

All I try to do is create an atmosphere that seems comfortable enough, that it removes tension and everyone feels free. If they feel free then behaviour happens, small moments happen and that's what ultimately works the best for me.

Next to acquiring good friends, the best acquisition is that of good books.

There are two way of establishing a reputation, one to be praised by honest people and the other to be accused by rogues. It is best, however, to secure the first one, because it will always be accompanied by the latter.

Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.

Honesty is the best policy.

Expect the best, Prepare for the worst.

Examinations are formidable even to the best prepared, for the greatest fool may ask more than the wisest man can answer.

Here's what I tell anybody and this is what I believe. The greatest gift we have is the gift of life. We understand that. That comes from our Creator. We're given a body. Now you may not like it, but you can maximize that body the best it can be maximized.

Education is the best provision for old age.

I think that Phil Kaufman is one of the best directors that I have come across.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

Your performance depends on your people. Select the best, train them and back them. When errors occur, give sharper guidance. If errors persist or if the fit feels wrong, help them move on. The country cannot afford amateur hour in the White House.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel, but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

Health is the thing that makes you feel that now is the best time of the year.

He who has done his best for his own time has lived for all times.

Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.

That government is best which governs least.

All the best performers bring to their role something more, something different than what the author put on paper. That's what makes theatre live. That's why it persists.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

I'll tell you one thing: Don't ever give anybody your best advice, because they're not going to follow it.

Fatigue is the best pillow.

You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

What is the recipe for successful achievement? To my mind there are just four essential ingredients: Choose a career you love, give it the best there is in you, seize your opportunities, and be a member of the team.

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.

Childhood obesity is best tackled at home through improved parental involvement, increased physical exercise, better diet and restraint from eating.

America is the best half-educated country in the world.

Nobody until very recently would have thought that their husband was supposed to be their best friend, confidante, intellectual soul mate, co-parent, inspiration.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.

It is best to rise from life as from a banquet, neither thirsty nor drunken.

From now until the end of time no one else will ever see life with my eyes, and I mean to make the best of my chance.

God's gifts put man's best dreams to shame.

I think that making love is the best form of exercise.

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself.

He who laughs best today, will also laughs last.

But what we can do, as flawed as we are, is still see God in other people, and do our best to help them find their own grace. That's what I strive to do, that's what I pray to do every day.

You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with courage and with the best that you have to give.

The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

Enthusiasm is the best protection in any situation. Wholeheartedness is contagious. Give yourself, if you wish to get others.

My experience has been that work is almost the best way to pull oneself out of the depths.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions.

I believe in prayer. It's the best way we have to draw strength from heaven.

Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.

He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.

Old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

All the adversity I've had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.

The making of friends who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life.

In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.

One's philosophy is not best expressed in words it is expressed in the choices one makes... and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

Treat your kid like a darling for the first five years. For the next five years, scold them. By the time they turn sixteen, treat them like a friend. Your grown up children are your best friends.

He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

Education is the best friend. An educated person is respected everywhere. Education beats the beauty and the youth.

Those who govern, having much business on their hands, do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom, but forced by the occasion.

It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes.

The best augury of a man's success in his profession is that he thinks it the finest in the world.

I paint self-portraits because I am so often alone, because I am the person I know best.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.

Time is generally the best doctor.

It's easy to get wrapped up in sharing everyday life with a partner. It's fun to get lost in love and romance. It's the best. But holding on to yourself while doing that is the most important thing.

For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.

Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.

I look my best when I take my helmet off after a long motorcycle ride. I have a glow and a bit of helmet hair.

The best smell in the world is that man that you love.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I just think it is important that you realize , that you're the best in the world. Whether you are a Democrat or Republican or whether you're libertarian or whatever, you are the best. And we should not ever forget that. And when somebody does not do the job, we got to let them go.

Most of the things we decide are not what we know to be the best. We say yes, merely because we are driven into a corner and must say something.

It is our moral obligation to give every child the very best education possible.

Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year.

The key is to keep company only with people who uplift you, whose presence calls forth your best.

The best part about being alone is that you really don't have to answer to anybody. You do what you want.

The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.

There is so much good in the worst of us, and so much bad in the best of us, that it ill behaves any of us to find fault with the rest of us.

The best way to lose a job is just not to care. When you do not care, it shows in everything you do.

You'll live. Only the best get killed.

There are many little ways to enlarge your child's world. Love of books is the best of all.

The man who has done his level best... is a success, even though the world may write him down a failure.

The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course.

A failure is not always a mistake, it may simply be the best one can do under the circumstances. The real mistake is to stop trying.

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

Men at most differ as Heaven and Earth, but women, worst and best, as Heaven and Hell.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.

The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be.

Personally, I just think rap music is the best thing out there, period. If you look at my deck in my car radio, you're always going to find a hip-hop tape that's all I buy, that's all I live, that's all I listen to, that's all I love.

Research has shown that the best way to be happy is to make each day happy.

Age appears to be best in four things old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

I did the best I could, and in some arenas, my best was not good enough. I've made some bad choices.

I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

A visitor from Mars could easily pick out the civilized nations. They have the best implements of war.

I will give you the best I have.

My belief is that communication is the best way to create strong relationships.

The will to work of everyone in the country is the best guarantee of national survival.

I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef,' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it!

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

I believe that I often bring out the best in somebody's talents.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

Being fired was the best luck of my life. It made me stop and reflect. It was the birth of my life as a writer.

The man who has done his best has done everything.

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

Faith in oneself is the best and safest course.

Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.

That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

Heavy hearts, like heavy clouds in the sky, are best relieved by the letting of a little water.

Fit no stereotypes. Don't chase the latest management fads. The situation dictates which approach best accomplishes the team's mission.

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.

A lot of the fun lies in trying to penetrate the mystery and this is best done by saying over the lines to yourself again and again, till they pass through the stage of sounding like nonsense, and finally return to a full sense that had at first escaped notice.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher.

When love is at its best, one loves so much that he cannot forget.

I was raised not to be rude, but I also try to get the best work out of people.

The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.

Your experiences will be yours alone. But truth and best friendship will rarely if ever disappoint you.

It's human nature to gripe, but I'm going ahead and doing the best I can.

A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best but what he has said or done otherwise shall give him no peace.

I've found the best way is to not be scared of the attention but to be grateful for it and open to it. It makes my days better rather than being annoyed that people want my attention.

One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.

Sleep is the best meditation.

Every day, people settle for less than they deserve. They are only partially living or at best living a partial life. Every human being has the potential for greatness.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

Some of the best lessons we ever learn are learned from past mistakes. The error of the past is the wisdom and success of the future.

The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

I marvel at the resilience of the Jewish people. Their best characteristic is their desire to remember. No other people has such an obsession with memory.

You owe it to yourself to be the best person possible. Because if you are, others will want to be with you, want to provide you with the things you want in exchange for what you're giving to them.

Now I know that Wal-Mart's policies do not reflect the best way of doing business and the values that I think are important in America.

The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.

This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.

My formula for living is quite simple. I get up in the morning and I go to bed at night. In between, I occupy myself as best I can.

Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Old friends are best.

I think music is the greatest art form that exists, and I think people listen to music for different reasons, and it serves different purposes. Some of it is background music, and some of it is things that might affect a person's day, if not their life, or change an attitude. The best songs are the ones that make you feel something.

I have the best husband in the world. He's very involved.

You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest.

Confrontation is not a dirty word. Sometimes it's the best kind of journalism as long you don't confront people just for the sake of a confrontation.

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Some of my best leading men have been dogs and horses.

The 1st period is won by the best technician. The 2nd period is won by the kid in the best shape. The 3rd period is won by the kid with the biggest heart.

I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst.

The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.

The best part of the art of living is to know how to grow old gracefully.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. They wake up in the morning and that's the best they're going to feel all day.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.

You're not going to say anything about me that I'm not going to say about myself. There's so many things that I think about myself if someone really wanted to get at me, they could say this and this and this. So I'm going to say it before they can. It's the best policy for me.

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

Since I'm always working, my best holiday memories are definitely when I can just go home and spend time with my family.

Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

I did my best, and God did the rest.

By all these lovely tokens September days are here, With summer's best of weather And autumn's best of cheer.

To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.

Do not make best friends with a melancholy sad soul. They always are heavily loaded, and you must bear half.

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

A strong, positive self-image is the best possible preparation for success.

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Amidst all the clutter, beyond all the obstacles, aside from all the static, are the goals set. Put your head down, do the best job possible, let the flak pass, and work towards those goals.

Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut, no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible.

There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

The best form of flattery is to be admired, imitated or respected. I've always felt proud our fans look up to us or feel we are inspirational.

I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.

Gorgeous hair is the best revenge.

The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.

The intention to live as long as possible isn't one of the mind's best intentions, because quantity isn't the same as quality.

Fairest and best adorned is she Whose clothing is humility.

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

The worst men often give the best advice.

The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

Your best friend and worst enemy are both in this room right now. It's not your neighbor right or left - and it's not God or the devil - it's you.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

Mediocre men work at their best men seeking excellence strive to do better.

The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.

Some women feel the best cure for a broken heart is a new beau.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

If you play it straight it's funny - the best comedy is always played straight down the middle. The adjustment is understanding from the screenplay that a moment is hilarious.

There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.

I don't want to tell President Obama how to make a speech. He's a much better speech maker than I am. But I think always to tell the truth in a sometimes blatant way, even though it might be temporarily unpopular, is the best approach.

The best thing you can do is find a person who loves you for exactly what you are.

Your purpose is to make your audience see what you saw, hear what you heard, feel what you felt. Relevant detail, couched in concrete, colorful language, is the best way to recreate the incident as it happened and to picture it for the audience.

The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.

Just do what you do best.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.

No matter how good you are at planning, the pressure never goes away. So I don't fight it. I feed off it. I turn pressure into motivation to do my best.

I've been all over the world. I love New York, I love Paris, San Francisco, so many places. But there's no place like New Orleans. It's got the best food. It's got the best music. It's got the best people. It's got the most fun stuff to do.

To be successful in real estate, you must always and consistently put your clients' best interests first. When you do, your personal needs will be realized beyond your greatest expectations.

I have a terrific marriage, but unlike a lot of relationships where they ebb and flow, no matter what happens you fall deeper and deeper in love every day. It's kind of the best thing that can happen to you. It's thrilling.

In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.

I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.

My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

The Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us concentrate our energy.

Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.

The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?

Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

A boy's story is the best that is ever told.

I was in the bath at the time, and my dad came running in and said, 'Guess who they want to play Harry Potter!?' and I started to cry. It was probably the best moment of my life.

I don't think I ever got the hang of the writers' room. I love collaborating with people, but I really do my best work alone, and I think I would want to - if I did something again, I think I'd want to take total ownership the way Aaron Sorkin or David Kelley does.

Life is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what's going to happen next.

Pride is still aiming at the best houses: Men would be angels, angels would be gods. Aspiring to be gods, if angels fell aspiring to be angels men rebel.

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest people uneasy is the best bred in the room.

Quit while you're ahead. All the best gamblers do.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

I think the best thing for you to do is just live your life. Live a life that's worth living, one where you do what you want to do, pursue your passions. That way, if you meet someone, they'll be joining a life that's already really good.

The best way to deal with that is to live in a fully conscious, compassionate, loving way. Don't wait until you're on your deathbed to recognize that this is the only way to live.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

She's always there for me when I need her She's my best friend she's just my everything.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

You always want to quit while you are ahead. You don't want to be like a fighter who stays too long in the ring until you're not performing at your best.

Do not have evil-doers for friends, do not have low people for friends: have virtuous people for friends, have for friends the best of men.

Good manners will open doors that the best education cannot.

I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

So if diva means giving your best, then yes, I guess I am a diva.

Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way.

I keep sailing on in this middle passage. I am sailing into the wind and the dark. But I am doing my best to keep my boat steady and my sails full.

The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.

Best to live lightly, unthinkingly.

My best birth control now is just to leave the lights on.

We are all of us failures, at least, the best of us are.

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Each of us has been put on earth with the ability to do something well. We cheat ourselves and the world if we don't use that ability as best we can.

Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today.

For me, the best times are always going to be the most intense, the ones with the highest highs and the lowest lows.

Some of the best ideas I get seem to happen when I'm doing mindless manual labor or exercise. I'm not sure how that happens, but it leaves me free for remarkable ideas to occur.

Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

The best way to lose weight is to close your mouth - something very difficult for a politician. Or watch your food - just watch it, don't eat it.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

The days you work are the best days.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

Where I am today... I still have my ups and downs, but I take it one day at a time and I just hope that I can be the best that I can possibly be, not only for myself, but also young people that are out there today that need someone to look up to.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

Example is the best precept.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Land really is the best art.

There is a wisdom in this beyond the rules of physic: a man's own observation what he finds good of and what he finds hurt of is the best physic to preserve health.

It's my firm conviction that when Uncle Sam calls, by God we go, and we do the best that we can.

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good, even if nothing else in your life is right, you feel like your whole world is complete.

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.

If I'm honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

One of the greatest things drama can do, at it's best, is to redefine the words we use every day such as love, home, family, loyalty and envy. Tragedy need not be a downer.

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

I just try to do the best job I possibly can - put the blinders on, go to work and be the best you can possibly be. Once you have done everything that you possibly can - you've put forth your greatest effort - then I can live with whatever's next.

Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity for growing into the healthiest of people.

If you're doing your best, you won't have any time to worry about failure.

Virtue is like a rich stone, best plain set.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best.

Just do the best you can. No one can do more than that.

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed, but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us, thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.

I felt that it's best just to be as transparent as possible.

I have found it advisable not to give too much heed to what people say when I am trying to accomplish something of consequence. Invariably they proclaim it can't be done. I deem that the very best time to make the effort.

I don't think there's anybody in America who thinks my personality is best suited to being Number Two.

A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.

The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

In politics, strangely enough, the best way to play your cards is to lay them face upwards on the table.

I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is best not to stir them.

If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama? You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.

All of Koons's best art - the encased vacuum cleaners, the stainless-steel Rabbit (the late-twentieth century's signature work of Simulationist sculpture), the amazing gleaming Balloon Dog, and the cast-iron re-creation of a Civil War mortar exhibited last month at the Armory - has simultaneously flaunted extreme realism, idealism, and fantasy.

Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

My good friends are Mormon, some of the best people I know.

Mr. Janet Reno? I think Mr. Janet Reno... I think he's one of the best hunting dogs in the world.

He who knows best knows how little he knows.

It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

Get the best people and train them well.

The best plan now is to have as many bosses as possible. I call it boss diversity. If you work for a company and you have one boss and that boss doesn't like you or wants to get rid of you, you're in trouble. But if you work for yourself, you have lots of bosses, who are your customers, and if a few of them decide they don't like you, that's okay.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Genius always gives its best at first prudence, at last.

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

Culture is the habit of being pleased with the best and knowing why.

Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.

Economy is the basis of society. When the economy is stable, society develops. The ideal economy combines the spiritual and the material, and the best commodities to trade in are sincerity and love.

The bold adventurer succeeds the best.

I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

If a man is dumb, someone is going to get the best of him, so why not you? If you don't, you're as dumb as he is.

Walking is man's best medicine.

I have found that being honest is the best technique I can use. Right up front, tell people what you're trying to accomplish and what you're willing to sacrifice to accomplish it.

Employees are a company's greatest asset - they're your competitive advantage. You want to attract and retain the best provide them with encouragement, stimulus, and make them feel that they are an integral part of the company's mission.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate.

I consider my ability to arouse enthusiasm among men the greatest asset I possess. The way to develop the best that is in a man is by appreciation and encouragement.

Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

The best people renounce all for one goal, the eternal fame of mortals but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

The middle class is so funny, it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.

The actions of men are the best interpreters of their thoughts.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend. To understand the things that are at our door is the best preparation for understanding those that lie beyond.

I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.

Man, being reasonable, must get drunk the best of life is but intoxication.

The best doctor is the one you run to and can't find.

I put on the best live show, the absolute best live show I can possibly can.

My stay-married secret would probably be exercising good communication, not when you have to but all the time. I think if you do that, you kinda just cleanse the situations, so there's not build up. I think that's probably the best way to do it.

You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't, you do the next best thing. You back up but you don't give up.

There is a Japanese proverb that literally goes 'Raise the sail with your stronger hand,' meaning you must go after the opportunities that arise in life that you are best equipped to do.

We are at our very best, and we are happiest, when we are fully engaged in work we enjoy on the journey toward the goal we've established for ourselves. It gives meaning to our time off and comfort to our sleep. It makes everything else in life so wonderful, so worthwhile.

I believe the best service to the child is the service closest to the child, and children who are victims of neglect, abuse, or abandonment must not also be victims of bureaucracy. They deserve our devoted attention, not our divided attention.

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

The best proof of love is trust.

The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.

My siblings are my best friends.

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

One of the best temporary cures for pride and affectation is seasickness a man who wants to vomit never puts on airs.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.

I just need to know that I did the very best I could and that I was true to myself.

I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Marilyn Monroe wasn't even her real name, Charles Manson isn't his real name, and now, I'm taking that to be my real name. But what's real? You can't find the truth, you just pick the lie you like the best.

That's what happens nowadays with people working on computers. They can so easily fix things with their mouse and take out all the, 'Oh, somebody coughed in the background we need to take that out' - or somebody hit a bad note. Those are all the best moments.

It was the best of times, it was the worst of times.

Don't let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.

A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.

Woman's at best a contradiction still.

My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.

Battle is the most magnificent competition in which a human being can indulge. It brings out all that is best it removes all that is base. All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

Be assured those will be thy worst enemies, not to whom thou hast done evil, but who have done evil to thee. And those will be thy best friends, not to whom thou hast done good, but who have done good to thee.

Live daringly, boldly, fearlessly. Taste the relish to be found in competition - in having put forth the best within you.

Letting your mind play is the best way to solve problems.

I think if you give your best as a parent, then that's all you can do.

I don't have the best body in the world, but I know for a fact that I have a really good voice.

The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian.

You can only do your best. That's all you can do. And if it isn't good enough, it isn't good enough.

Disney has the best casting. If he doesn't like an actor he just tears him up.

It is my belief that we all have the need to feel special. It is this need that can bring out the best in us, yet the worst in us.

Speaking of Twitter, I don't even know if I composed a blog entry in 2009, as I was too busy parceling my every thought into cute 140-character sound bites. I used to only worry about being pithy for a living now some of my best lines are wasted on a free app!

A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.

What good mothers and fathers instinctively feel like doing for their babies is usually best after all.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

I've run the Boston Marathon 6 times before. I think the best aspects of the marathon are the beautiful changes of the scenery along the route and the warmth of the people's support. I feel happier every time I enter this marathon.

It is with rivers as it is with people: the greatest are not always the most agreeable nor the best to live with.

Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.

Being a mother is the best thing that ever happened to me. Before you have your first baby you are a girl and then you become a mother. There is no transition into being a woman you literally become a mum and being a mum means you always love someone else more than yourself and it is an unexplainable situation.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The ultimate victory in competition is derived from the inner satisfaction of knowing that you have done your best and that you have gotten the most out of what you had to give.

The best way to get a bad law repealed is to enforce it strictly.

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

He who laughs most, learns best.

There are times when even the best manager is like the little boy with the big dog, waiting to see where the dog wants to go so he can take him there.

It is best to live however one can be.

You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.

The best way to hold a man is in your arms.

The best medicine I know for rheumatism is to thank the Lord that it ain't gout.

I love my wife and I know she loves me. We're best friends. We're just lucky to have found each other. It takes a lot of work but I just feel very blessed that I found the right person. It's a very fortunate situation and not everyone has that.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Love is the best thing in the world, and the thing that lives the longest.

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

You and I are stuck with the necessity of taking the worst of two evils or none at all. So-I'm taking the immature Democrat as the best of the two. Nixon is impossible.

When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.

The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

The abduction of a child is a tragedy. No one can fully understand or appreciate what a parent goes through at such a time, unless they have faced a similar tragedy. Every parent responds differently. Each parent copes with this nightmare in the best way he or she knows how.

The seven marvels that best represent man's achievements over the last 2,000 years will be determined by Internet vote... so look for Howard Stern's Private Parts to come in No. 1.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend, one human soul whom we can trust utterly, who knows the best and worst of us, and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

The best time to make friends is before you need them.

The best director is the one you don't see.

Some of my best friends are Venture Capitalists, but let's face it, a hamster with Alzheimer's could make those kind of numbers. It's great work if you can get it.

Home is the place we love best and grumble the most.

The wildest colts make the best horses.

The best part of beauty is that which no picture can express.

Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.

For what is love itself, for the one we love best? An enfolding of immeasurable cares which yet are better than any joys outside our love.

Falling in love is the best way to kill your heart because then it's not yours anymore. It's laid in a coffin, waiting to be cremated.

As a mom, I know it is my responsibility, and no one else's, to raise my kids. But we have to ask ourselves, what does it mean when so many parents are finding their best efforts undermined by an avalanche of advertisements aimed at our kids.

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.

There is no doubt that America remains the premier political, economic, military power in the world, and I both expect and count on it remaining so, because I think that's certainly in our best interest but also the best interests of the world.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

Success comes from knowing that you did your best to become the best that you are capable of becoming.

An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong.

You know it's going to hell when the best rapper out there is white and the best golfer is black.

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

I'm human, I'm not perfect. I make mistakes all the time, but I guess my job is to keep those mistakes to myself, which I'm already fine doing and just try to be the best I can be for those kids.

It is always the best policy to speak the truth, unless, of course, you are an exceptionally good liar.

The best things in life are silly.

The U.S. Armed Forces are the best trained, best equipped fighting forces in the world.

Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.

Those who love him love that he sells the most art they take it as a point of faith that this proves Kinkade is the best. But his fans don't only rely on this supply-and-demand justification. They go back to values.

Of all the home remedies, a good wife is best.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

I think guitar is the best thing in the world.

There is small risk a general will be regarded with contempt by those he leads, if, whatever he may have to preach, he shows himself best able to perform.

Good humor is a tonic for mind and body. It is the best antidote for anxiety and depression. It is a business asset. It attracts and keeps friends. It lightens human burdens. It is the direct route to serenity and contentment.

If being an attractive woman got you attention for directing, then the entire 'best director' category would be comprised of models. To me, that is just the most ludicrous connection that you could make.

How mankind defers from day to day the best it can do, and the most beautiful things it can enjoy, without thinking that every day may be the last one, and that lost time is lost eternity!

Look your best - who said love is blind?

Learn to say 'no' to the good so you can say 'yes' to the best.

Nature scarcely ever gives us the very best for that we must have recourse to art.

I'm not saying that there's anything better than mated bliss at its best, but I'm saying that living alone is as good in its own way. But we haven't quite given ourselves permission to recognize that.

That is what we are supposed to do when we are at our best - make it all up - but make it up so truly that later it will happen that way.

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

The best way to be boring is to leave nothing out.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.

When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.

Borrowing knowledge of reality from all sources, taking the best from every study, Science of Mind brings together the highest enlightenment of the ages.

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one.

If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.

He who keeps his cool best wins.

The best weapon against an enemy is another enemy.

Expect the best, plan for the worst, and prepare to be surprised.

Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.

The best thing one can do when it's raining is to let it rain.

Life is short and if you're looking for extension, you had best do well. 'Cause there's good deeds and then there's good intentions. They are as far apart as Heaven and Hell.

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator.

We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them.

The best place a person can die, is where they die for others.

A huge part of acting in movies is appetite. You do your best work when you've got a lot of appetite and you really want to embrace something. When you get tired, you don't have that hunger.

Holidays are the best. I couldn't imagine being from a small family.

To look and feel my best, I watch my calories and exercise.

Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.

Smiling is definitely one of the best beauty remedies. If you have a good sense of humor and a good approach to life, that's beautiful.

Lay this unto your breast: Old friends, like old swords, still are trusted best.

The best way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

I get a lot of the ideas when I'm resting - either when I'm meditating or getting some kind of work done on my back, like physical therapy or acupuncture. That's where I get my best ideas, maybe because I'm balancing my body.

The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.

The only failure one should fear, is not hugging to the purpose they see as best.

Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.

The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

The best teamwork comes from men who are working independently toward one goal in unison.

The best thing I've learned is, if you're going out, never go out alone - you leave yourself vulnerable. If you've got someone else there you trust, they can say, be wary of that person. I probably used to be too trusting of people.

One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

Having lots of siblings is like having built-in best friends.

I just want to do what I do best, and that's fight. I love it.

Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

We reproach people for talking about themselves but it is the subject they treat best.

As an elder of the Americas and of the rest of the planet, it is my responsibility to care for and protect, to the best of my ability, the young.

Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

The best effort of a fine person is felt after we have left their presence.

There are lots of things which I would love to tell him, but in some way, I also feel that I lost the person closest to me. And I got a second chance to live. So in a way I feel that I live for both of us... and I will do my best.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

The best way to begin genuine bipartisanship to make America stronger is to work together on the real crises facing our country, not to manufacture an artificial crisis to serve a special interest agenda out of touch with the needs of Americans.

Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

Also, if you want to reach people, theatre is not always the best way to do it.

This is the great reward of service, to live, far out and on, in the life of others this is the mystery of Christ, - to give life's best for such high sake that it shall be found again unto life eternal.

I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?

The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives, is, in the best sense of the word, Grotesque.

God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.

My best moment? I have a lot of good moments but the one I prefer is when I kicked the hooligan.

The season of failure is the best time for sowing the seeds of success.

First gain the victory and then make the best use of it you can.

Success has a simple formula: do your best, and people may like it.

Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away.

Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.

Like anything else that happens on its own, the act of writing is beyond currency. Money is great stuff to have, but when it comes to the act of creation, the best thing is not to think of money too much. It constipates the whole process.

I have lost my seven best friends, which is to say God has had mercy on me seven times without realizing it. He lent a friendship, took it from me, sent me another.

The best of seers is he who guesses well.

I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

Creative ideas flourish best in a shop which preserves some spirit of fun. Nobody is in business for fun, but that does not mean there cannot be fun in business.

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

'Thank you' is the best prayer that anyone could say. I say that one a lot. Thank you expresses extreme gratitude, humility, understanding.

The best artist has that thought alone Which is contained within the marble shell The sculptor's hand can only break the spell To free the figures slumbering in the stone.

A woman knows by intuition, or instinct, what is best for herself.

The best protection any woman can have... is courage.

Italians know about human nature - they understand human nature perhaps better than anyone else does. They know that people are weak and greedy and lazy and dishonest and they just try to make the best of it to work around it.

You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know.

I love that for Barack, there is no such thing as 'us' and 'them' - he doesn't care whether you're a Democrat, a Republican, or none of the above... he knows that we all love our country... and he's always ready to listen to good ideas... he's always looking for the very best in everyone he meets.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.

Recruitment and retention are critical to sustain our Armed Forces with the best men and women willing to stand in the gap and make huge sacrifices to ensure our freedom.

There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.

If you're lucky enough to have a pretty girl love you and share herself and sleep with you, make that your secret. The best way to spoil love is by talking to too many people about it.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

The best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

The statistics on sanity are that one out of every four Americans is suffering from some form of mental illness. Think of your three best friends. If they're okay, then it's you.

Do right. Do your best. Treat others as you want to be treated.

The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

I find that the best way to do things is to constantly move forward and to never doubt anything and keep moving forward, if you make a mistake say you made a mistake.

The creed of a true saint is to make the best of life, and to make the most of it.

You teach best what you most need to learn.

Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret.

I live with some of my best friends from high school, very commune-like, in my house. It's my hippie way of life.

Parents have become so convinced that educators know what is best for their children that they forget that they themselves are really the experts.

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me.

The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to remember it once.

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope. Few are reduced so low as that.

The best remedy for a short temper is a long walk.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

Look at the sky. We are not alone. The whole universe is friendly to us and conspires only to give the best to those who dream and work.

The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.

Cigarettes and coffee: an alcoholic's best friend!

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world.

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.

The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful.

It is literally true that you can succeed best and quickest by helping others to succeed.

I'm either going to go completely mental, completely bankrupt, or have the best success of my life.

You hear the best stories from ordinary people. That sense of immediacy is more real to me than a lot of writerly, literary-type crafted stories. I want that immediacy when I read a novel.

The best way to make your dreams come true is to wake up.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

The best thing about animals is that they don't talk much.

Coldplay fans are the best in the world. If you like Coldplay then you're obviously very intelligent and good looking and all-around brilliant.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.

The best thing is to look natural, but it takes makeup to look natural.

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.

When you do not know what you are doing and what you are doing is the best - that is inspiration.

No one can really honestly be the very best, no one.

A lot of folks believe their best years are behind them. But I want Americans to recognize that's not true.

Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.

The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Next to being witty, the best thing is being able to quote another's wit.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

The best morale exist when you never hear the word mentioned. When you hear a lot of talk about it, it's usually lousy.

Employees make the best dates. You don't have to pick them up and they're always tax-deductible.

You have to surround yourself with people who love you and want the best for you.

Grow old with me! The best is yet to be.

Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.

If you're feeling insecure and you need to feel special, the best place to go is somewhere foreign where people treat you as special because you're different.

The best time I ever had with Joan Crawford was when I pushed her down the stairs in Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

I'm married to my best friend!

Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.

Blondes make the best victims. They're like virgin snow that shows up the bloody footprints.

In matters of conscience, first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence, last thoughts are best.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

I always believe that to be the best, you have to smell like the best, dress like the best, act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can, it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.

The best luck of all is the luck you make for yourself.

In any moment of decision, the best thing you can do is the right thing, the next best thing is the wrong thing, and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

The best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

If a man does his best, what else is there?

The best activities for your health are pumping and humping.

Clever men are good, but they are not the best.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

Our best successes often come after our greatest disappointments.

The best things in life are unexpected - because there were no expectations.

And while the law of competition may be sometimes hard for the individual, it is best for the race, because it ensures the survival of the fittest in every department.

I've analyzed the best I can... and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

Townes van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

The age of a woman doesn't mean a thing. The best tunes are played on the oldest fiddles.

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.

I think we risk becoming the best informed society that has ever died of ignorance.

The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency.

The best book, like the best speech, will do it all - make us laugh, think, cry and cheer - preferably in that order.

I just always expect the best because I'm a competitor and if I'm competing, then obviously I'm trying to be better in everything.

The best audience is intelligent, well-educated and a little drunk.

I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

Blessed are they who have the gift of making friends, for it is one of God's best gifts. It involves many things, but above all, the power of going out of one's self, and appreciating whatever is noble and loving in another.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts, not on marble.

Work hard, stay positive, and get up early. It's the best part of the day.

I think my best work is when I'm kind of in charge.

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

My husband and I are best of friends first and foremost. We fight like cats and dogs, but never stay mad for long. I was lucky to find him, he is in every way, my soulmate.

I know some people say it's not the best to work with your family, but I have never understood that because it's always worked so well for me.

It's impossible, I think, however much I'd become disillusioned politically or evolve into a post-political person, I don't think I'd ever change my view that socialism is the best political moment humans have ever come up with.

Don't lower your expectations to meet your performance. Raise your level of performance to meet your expectations. Expect the best of yourself, and then do what is necessary to make it a reality.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

As you know from school, it's when you have not prepared for the test that you have the fear of failing. And if you have prepared, even if you fail, you've done your best.

Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick.

Priests are not men of the world it is not intended that they should be and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so.

The best is the enemy of the good.

Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.

I think that the best training a top manager can be engaged in is management by example.

Loving a child doesn't mean giving in to all his whims to love him is to bring out the best in him, to teach him to love what is difficult.

There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority.

It is our best work that God wants, not the dregs of our exhaustion. I think he must prefer quality to quantity.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

The best way out is always through.

Canada's the best country in the world.

I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.

There is only one thing for us to do, and that is to do our level best right where we are every day of our lives To use our best judgment, and then to trust the rest to that Power which holds the forces of the universe in his hands.

An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have. The older she gets the more interested he is in her.

No man really knows about other human beings. The best he can do is to suppose that they are like himself.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

My imagination completely controls me, and forever feeds the fire that burns with dark red light in my heart by bringing me the best dreams. I've always had a wild imagination, a big heart and a tortured soul so I feel that dark fantasy, love and horror are in my blood.

The best way to turn a woman's head is to tell her she has a beautiful profile.

As long as you as an individual... can convince yourself that in order to move forward as best you can you have to be optimistic, you can be described as 'one of the faithful,' one of those people who can say, 'Well, look, something's going to happen! Let's just keep trying. Let's not give up.

One of the best things for a woman to hear is that she is sexy.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

In writing and politicking, it's best not to think about it, just do it.

The advice of the elders to young men is very apt to be as unreal as a list of the hundred best books.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

The best road to progress is freedom's road.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

The Left Elite only pretend to be concerned about what's best for everyone else because it is the most effective way to manipulate you and your children into their abyss.

Music's always been really cathartic. It's the best drug for me to get away from the everyday pressures just for a second via a good song.

When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.

North Americans as a whole need to embrace having clothes altered to their body. I hear it all the time: why do the Europeans always look so good? They have a relationship with their tailor and spend the time and money to make their clothes look their best.

We all have a social mask, right? We put it on, we go out, put our best foot forward, our best image. But behind that social mask is a personal truth, what we really, really believe about who we are and what we're capable of.

Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.

Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing.

Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.

The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.

To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.

I think every girl needs to love herself, regardless of anything. Like if you're having a bad day, if you don't like your hair, if you don't have the best family situation, whatever, you have to love yourself and you can't do anything until you love yourself first.

I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.

Being a teenager is an amazing time and a hard time. It's when you make your best friends - I have girls who will never leave my heart and I still talk to. You get the best and the worst as a teen. You have the best friendships and the worst heartbreaks.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

If it's flipping hamburgers at McDonald's, be the best hamburger flipper in the world. Whatever it is you do you have to master your craft.

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

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

Those who know the least obey the best.

Your best teacher is your last mistake.

If your sister is in a tearing hurry to go out and cannot catch your eye, she's wearing your best sweater.

You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

I think the best place to work in football is England.

The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

I think we all have blocks between us and the best version of ourselves, whether it's shyness, insecurity, anxiety, whether it's a physical block, and the story of a person overcoming that block to their best self. It's truly inspiring because I think all of us are engaged in that every day.

I've always felt toward the slightest scene, even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say, 'Hi,' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine, to give them the best you can get from me.

Life is best when you are in love.

Testing oneself is best when done alone.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

I was just doing my job in the ring and doing my best to make people happy.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

Even a liberal reporter is a patriot, wants the best for this country. And people, your fair and balanced friends at Fox, don't fully understand that.

The best intelligence test is what we do with our leisure.

What I love best in life is new starts.

If you believe in what you are doing, then let nothing hold you up in your work. Much of the best work of the world has been done against seeming impossibilities. The thing is to get the work done.

After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.

One of the rarest things that a man ever does, is to do the best he can.

Success is peace of mind, which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you made the effort to become the best of which you are capable.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

It has always been my belief that a man should do his best, regardless of how much he receives for his services, or the number of people he may be serving or the class of people served.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

I like physics. I think it is the best science out of all three of them, because generally it's more useful. You learn about speed and velocity and time, and that's all clever stuff.

I've given it my all. I've done my best. Now, I'm ready with my family to begin the next phase of our lives.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And, at the end, when philosophic thought has done its best, the wonder remains.

The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.

The splinter in your eye is the best magnifying-glass.

Central banks don't have divine wisdom. They try to do the best analysis they can and must be prepared to stand or fall by the quality of that analysis.

You must accept that you might fail then, if you do your best and still don't win, at least you can be satisfied that you've tried. If you don't accept failure as a possibility, you don't set high goals, you don't branch out, you don't try - you don't take the risk.

The trite saying that honesty is the best policy has met with the just criticism that honesty is not policy. The real honest man is honest from conviction of what is right, not from policy.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Music is the best way for me to say I love you.

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.

Jeffrey Deitch is the Jeff Koons of art dealers. Not because he's the biggest, best, or the richest of his kind. But because in some ways he's the weirdest (which is saying a lot when you're talking about the wonderful, wicked, lovable, and annoying creatures known as art dealers).

If you die you're completely happy and your soul somewhere lives on. I'm not afraid of dying. Total peace after death, becoming someone else is the best hope I've got.

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.

The unions say 'last hired - first fired,', we say hire and fire based on merit. We want the best and brightest in the classroom.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force, then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

The best cure for insomnia is to get a lot of sleep.

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.

I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune, and idleness, its opposite, never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

If I look at the message I'm portraying, I think it definitely is be who you are, but be your best you.

One of my favorite activities as a teen-ager was to watch television over the phone with my best friend.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given.

In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life.

Remember, always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember, others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Remember you will not always win. Some days, the most resourceful individual will taste defeat. But there is, in this case, always tomorrow - after you have done your best to achieve success today.

My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you I the best place for the next moment.

Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

Nearly all the powerful people of this age are unbelievers, the best of them in doubt and misery, the most in plodding hesitation, doing as well as they can, what practical work lies at hand.

A man's best fortune, or his worst, is his wife.

You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.

We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for us, but those who make it most easy for us to forgive them.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

The best subjects are always people, who never fail to amaze me by their unpredictability.

I know I'm not the best. I'm not the best singer, I'm not the best songwriter, I'm not the best player.

Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.

I have reached a place in my life where I need to sit down and say, 'Well, what do I do? What's best for me?' I need to look into options for the future.

The last time money left the art world, intrepid types maxed out their credit cards and opened galleries, and a few of them have become the best in the world.

The deferring of anger is the best antidote to anger.

Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.

The work ahead will be hard. These times demand the best of us - all of us, but we can do this. Together, we can do this. We can get this country working again. We can get this economy growing again. We can make the safety net safe again. We can do this.

The best portion of a good man's life is his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.

When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.

It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected. The best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.

Work is like the rest of life. The best parts are free.

Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.

We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.

And I believe that the best buy in public health today must be a combination of regular physical exercise and a healthy diet.

To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.

Choose your companions from the best Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

The best liar is he who makes the smallest amount of lying go the longest way.

I really feel like life will dictate itself. You should allow it to unfold as naturally as possible. Just go with the flow. When you're really desperate, you say a few prayers and hope for the best. That's the way I've always lived my life.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself.

I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.

Friends are the best to turn to when you're having a rough day.

Living well is the best revenge.

Some people have such a talent for making the best of a bad situation that they go around creating bad situations so they can make the best of them.

Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.

In less enlightened times, the best way to impress women was to own a hot car. But women wised up and realized it was better to buy their own hot cars so they wouldn't have to ride around with jerks.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

My mama always used to tell me: 'If you can't find somethin' to live for, you best find somethin' to die for.'

Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.

The time that people aren't expecting what's going to happen, I find that's the best time to really cause the damage that needs to be done.

My dad was my best friend and greatest role model. He was an amazing dad, coach, mentor, soldier, husband and friend.

The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.

As we look forward to freedom, the shining city on the hill and the best days of America lying ahead, it is the men and women in uniform who protect, defend and make us proud to whom we should look and give thanks every night.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

Walking is the best possible exercise. Habituate yourself to walk very fast.

The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.

I think that from the time you start playing sports as a child you see that your responsibility to your team is to play the best that you can play as an individual... and yet, not take anything away from being part of a team.

All that really matters is I have two beautiful kids, and I'm trying to be the best dad I can possibly be, and that's the most important thing of all.

To give anything less than your best, is to sacrifice the gift.

The waste basket is the writer's best friend.

The best interpreter of the law is custom.

Every Body has so good an Opinion of their own Understanding as to think their own way the best.

You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion.

A mathematician is a person who can find analogies between theorems a better mathematician is one who can see analogies between proofs and the best mathematician can notice analogies between theories.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

For the last five years, we have been presented with the idea that Barack Obama is superhuman. Barack Obama is unlike any of us or anyone else. And he isn't. In fact, he's much less achieved and much less accomplished than most who have gotten half as far as he has, and I think maybe what we saw was the best.

The best way to keep one's word is not to give it.

To love and win is the best thing. To love and lose, the next best.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

In giving freedom to the slave, we assure freedom to the free - honorable alike in what we give and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last best hope of earth.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

I was never one to patiently pick up broken fragments and glue them together again and tell myself that the mended whole was as good as new. What is broken is broken - and I'd rather remember it as it was at its best than mend it and see the broken places as long as I lived.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

Prescription: A physician's guess at what will best prolong the situation with least harm to the patient.

When I am traveling in a carriage, or walking after a good meal, or during the night when I cannot sleep it is on such occasions that ideas flow best and most abundantly.

No man fails who does his best.

I've always believed that there are funny people everywhere, but they're just not comedians. In fact, some of my best comedic inspirations were not professional entertainers.

To know yet to think that one does not know is best Not to know yet to think that one knows will lead to difficulty.