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

It's a funny thing about life if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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