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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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