The best thing we can do if we want the Russians to let us be Americans is to let the Russians be Russian. – George F. Kennan
You should read history and look at ostracism, persecution, martyrdom, and that kind of thing. They always happen to the best men, you know. – George Eliot
Brevity is the best recommendation of speech, whether in a senator or an orator. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
We should often feel ashamed of our best actions if the world could see all the motives which produced them. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done. – Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away. – Wilson Mizner
Use those talents you have. You will make it. You will give joy to the world. Take this tip from nature: The woods would be a very silent place if no birds sang except those who sang best. – Bernard Meltzer
The wildest colts make the best horses. – Plutarch
The best interpreter of the law is custom. – Marcus Tullius Cicero
Education must provide the opportunities for self-fulfillment it can at best provide a rich and challenging environment for the individual to explore, in his own way. – Noam Chomsky
You must be worthy of the best, but not more worthy than the rest. – Denis Waitley
I think the best thing I can do is to be a distraction. A husband lives and breathes his work all day long. If he comes home to more table thumping, how can the poor man ever relax? – Jackie Kennedy
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. – Meister Eckhart
If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best. – Chuck Palahniuk
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. – John Ruskin
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with. – Paula Abdul
A majority is always better than the best repartee. – Benjamin Disraeli
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. – Benjamin Disraeli
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. – Samuel Butler
At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame. – Barbara Ehrenreich
