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.

The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.

Things turn out best for the people who make the best of the way things turn out.

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.

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.

When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.

I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.

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