“He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.”
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“When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.”
“Everyone enjoys doing the kind of work for which he is best suited.”
“All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts, or at best, part of the public character or at worst, catchwords.”
“In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.”
“Broadly speaking, the short words are the best, and the old words best of all.”
“The best evaluation I can make of a player is to look in his eyes and see how scared they are.”
“It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.”
“Our goal is to make the best devices in the world, not to be the biggest.”
“There's a victory, and defeat the first and best of victories, the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another, but of himself.”
“Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs; he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.”
“Good humor is one of the best articles of dress one can wear in society.”
“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”
“I do the very best I know how - the very best I can and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.”
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”
“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice, he is the worst.”
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
“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.”
“I always prefer to believe the best of everybody, it saves so much trouble.”
“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”
“We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this, we are less prone to hate our enemies.”
“The things I want to know are in books my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.”
“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”