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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.