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.

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

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

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

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

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.

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

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

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

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got.