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

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.

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

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

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

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

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

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

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.