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

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.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

To help yourself, you must be yourself. Be the best that you can be. When you make a mistake, learn from it, pick yourself up and move on.

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

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

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

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

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

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