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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.