“The best time to make friends is before you need them.”

“But men are men the best sometimes forget.”

“Luck marches with those who give their very best.”

“Civilization had too many rules for me, so I did my best to rewrite them.”

“The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors, but always most in the common people.”

“I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.”

“Man's wisdom is his best friend folly his worst enemy.”

“Fatigue is the best pillow.”

“I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.”

“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?'”

“Golf is so popular simply because it is the best game in the world at which to be bad.”

“I may be as bad as the worst, but, thank God, I am as good as the best.”

“A Boss in Heaven is the best excuse for a boss on earth, therefore If God did exist, he would have to be abolished.”

“I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be.”

“To give and then not feel that one has given is the very best of all ways of giving.”

“Living well is the best revenge.”

“The only way you can get good, unless you're a genius, is to copy. That's the best thing. Just steal.”

“Take those chances and you can achieve greatness, whereas if you go conservative, you'll never know. I truly believe what doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Even if you fail, learning and moving on is sometimes the best thing.”

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

“I think it's brought the world a lot closer together, and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then, again, television, at its best, is magnificent.”

“An excuse becomes an obstacle in your journey to success when it is made in place of your best effort or when it is used as the object of the blame.”