Best quotes

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'

One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that.

Nothing goes by luck in composition. It allows of no tricks. The best you can write will be the best you are.

I didn't see it then, but it turned out that getting fired from Apple was the best thing that could have ever happened to me. The heaviness of being successful was replaced by the lightness of being a beginner again, less sure about everything. It freed me to enter one of the most creative periods of my life.

It is best to avoid the beginnings of evil.

Best way to get rid of kitchen odors: Eat out.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

I've always taught that a poor economy is the best opportunity for salespeople because the naysayers and grumblers have already given up, leaving more territory, more opportunities to be successful than in a good economy when virtually all salespeople are out there, giving it their best.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.

The best things and best people rise out of their separateness I'm against a homogenized society because I want the cream to rise.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

The best executive is one who has sense enough to pick good people to do what he wants done, and self-restraint enough to keep from meddling with them while they do it.

Honestly, I'd love to be remembered as one of the best to ever pick up a mic, but if I'm doing my part to lessen some racial tension I feel good about what I'm doing.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.