“My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.”

“The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.”

“Achievement is not always success, while reputed failure often is. It is honest endeavor, persistent effort to do the best possible under any and all circumstances.”

“The best work is not what is most difficult for you it is what you do best.”

“Real education should consist of drawing the goodness and the best out of our own students. What better books can there be than the book of humanity?”

“The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.”

“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.”

“A man's sentiments are generally just and right, while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates, as it does in women, with the indignation of righteousness.”

“Throughout my life I have always been amazed that people couldn't listen to other people, that they couldn't hear their best intent, that there seemed to be an enormous need to demonize.”

“Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.”

“The noir hero is a knight in blood caked armor. He's dirty and he does his best to deny the fact that he's a hero the whole time.”

“I think guitar is the best thing in the world.”

“The best scientist is open to experience and begins with romance - the idea that anything is possible.”

“The trees that are slow to grow bear the best fruit.”

“Massachusetts children cannot only lead the nation in test scores, they can be competitive with the best in the world. And the gap in achievement among races can virtually disappear.”

“No man fails who does his best.”

“Contrary to general belief, I do not believe that friends are necessarily the people you like best, they are merely the people who got there first.”

“One man's ways may be as good as another's, but we all like our own best.”

“Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.”

“You don't despair about something like the Middle East, you just do the best you can.”

“The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity.”