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

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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