I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit because they can't give the best service.

The best books... are those that tell you what you know already.

Luck marches with those who give their very best.

Our worldly successes cannot be guaranteed but our ability to achieve spiritual success is entirely up to us thanks to the grace of God. The best advice I know is to give is to give those worldly things your best but never your all - reserve the ultimate hope for the only one who can grant it.

God is not on the side of the big battalions but on the side of those who shoot best.

Remember always give your best. Never get discouraged. Never be petty. Always remember others may hate you. But those who hate you don't win unless you hate them. And then you destroy yourself.

Those who excel in virtue have the best right of all to rebel but then they are of all men the least inclined to do so.

A good character is the best tombstone. Those who loved you and were helped by you will remember you when forget-me-nots have withered. Carve your name on hearts not on marble.

Those who govern having much business on their hands do not generally like to take the trouble of considering and carrying into execution new projects. The best public measures are therefore seldom adopted from previous wisdom but forced by the occasion.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.