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

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

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

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

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

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

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

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