Best quotes

My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.

He who laughs most, learns best.

The best writing is not about the writer, the best writing is absolutely not about the writer, it's about us, it's about the reader.

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

A multitude of bees can tell the time of day, calculate the geometry of the sun's position, argue about the best location for the next swarm. Bees do a lot of close observing of other bees maybe they know what follows stinging and do it anyway.

At some point, I would like to write a book and other things, but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

To be free from evil thoughts is God's best gift.

Poverty is uncomfortable but nine times out of ten the best thing that can happen to a young man is to be tossed overboard and compelled to sink or swim.

We Americans are the best informed people on earth as to the events of the last twenty-four hours we are the not the best informed as the events of the last sixty centuries.

The best films of any kind, narrative or documentary, provoke questions.

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

The best advice I ever got was that knowledge is power and to keep reading.

The things we remember best are those better forgotten.

The best thing about acting is that I get to lose myself in another character and actually get paid for it... It's a great outlet. I'm not really sure who I am - it seems I change every day.

No matter what you study, the thing that you know best is what you grew up with.

Old friends are best.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

The best sermon is preached by the minister who has a sermon to preach and not by the man who has to preach a sermon.

That they may have a little peace, even the best dogs are compelled to snarl occasionally.

I've been gone for a long time. I really want to give the fans something that they deserve to have. So, I'm working really hard on this. I really want to make it the best work I've done so far.