“Laughter is the best medicine - unless you're diabetic, then insulin comes pretty high on the list.”

“The best way to obtain truth and wisdom is not to ask from books, but to go to God in prayer, and obtain divine teaching.”

“The ladder of success is best climbed by stepping on the rungs of opportunity.”

“The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?”

“With my wife I don't get no respect. I made a toast on her birthday to 'the best woman a man ever had.' The waiter joined me.”

“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”

“Among the best traitors Ireland has ever had, Mother Church ranks at the very top, a massive obstacle in the path to equality and freedom. She has been a force for conservatism... to ward off threats to her own security and influence.”

“If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.”

“Sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.”

“If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.”

“The death of my father is probably the biggest thing that I ever faced. Daddy and I were best friends.”

“Maria is the best reason to come home.”

“The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.”

“We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.”

“Though bachelors be the strongest stakes, married men are the best binders, in the hedge of the commonwealth.”

“My nominee for Best Picture of the year - maybe the best picture ever, because it's essentially made up of and is an ecstatic love letter to all other movies - is Christian Marclay's endlessly enticing must-see masterpiece 'The Clock.'”

“The best director is the one you don't see.”

“To write the lives of the great in separating them from their works necessarily ends by above all stressing their pettiness, because it is in their work that they have put the best of themselves.”

“To not be modest about it, you'll find that with only a couple of exceptions, most of the musicians that I've worked with have done their best work by far with me.”

“The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.”

“I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.”