The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
- James Monroe
I think it may not be a coincidence that the rise of printing and book publication and literacy and the phenomenon of best sellers all preceded the humanitarian reforms of the Enlightenment.
- Steven Pinker
Let me think about the people who I care about the most, and how when they fail or disappoint me... I still love them, I still give them chances, and I still see the best in them. Let me extend that generosity to myself.
- Ze Frank
You gotta love Rick Perry's swagger. The Texas Governor is out there in the Iowa cornfields, unabashedly going to toe-to-toe with President Obama, doing his best to instantly cast himself as the big dog in the Republican pack.
- Jeff Goodell
Tiles, the best furniture, fabrics, bath fixtures, bronze - just leaf through any design magazine and you immediately understand they're all 'Made in Italy.' We have the premier opera house in the world, La Scala, and behind the Nobel given to CERN is the research of many Italians.
- Lapo Elkann
With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.
- Franklin Pierce
On the day my daughter was born, I started writing a book for her. The plan was that, over the course of her life, I'd fill it with advice on how to be a strong woman. But along the way, I got caught up in the stories of Amelia Earhart, Sally Ride, and so many others. So how do you pick the best heroes for your kids?
- Brad Meltzer
We're not arrogant, we just believe we're the best band in the world.
- Noel Gallagher
You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.
- Herb Brooks
At some point, you realize your parents are human. They make the best decisions they can with the options available to them.
- Cory Monteith
Hard conditions of life are indispensable to bringing out the best in human personality.
- Alexis Carrel
Friendships that have stood the test of time and change are surely best.
- Joseph Parry
The best things that capture your imagination are ones you hadn't thought of before and that aren't talked about in the news all the time.
- Steve Wozniak
You don't have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.
- Robert Griffin III
I have been given the authority over you, and I am not the best of you. If I do well, help me; and if I do wrong, set me right. Sincere regard for truth.
- Abu Bakr
As we reflect back upon the tragic loss of Challenger and her brave crew of heroes who were aboard that fateful day, I am reminded that they truly represented the best of us, as they climbed aloft on a plume of propellant gasses, reaching for the stars, to inspire us who were Earthbound.
- Buzz Aldrin
I have learned that delivering the best possible palliative care to children is vital, providing children and their families with a place of support, care and enhancement at a time of great need is simply life-changing.
- Kate Middleton
I had a friend where it turned out that she hated my guts, all through our friendship. I thought she was my best friend, and then, in high school, she turned on me and had sordid affairs with all of the people that I'd dated. It was less hurtful because I was in high school, so it was more like, 'What's wrong with you? Gross!'
- Mae Whitman
Openness, transparency - these are among the few weapons the citizenry has to protect itself from the powerful and the corrupt... and that is the best thing that WikiLeaks has done.
- Michael Moore
Mr. Bean is at his best when he is not using words, but I am equally at home in both verbal and nonverbal expression.
- Rowan Atkinson
I'll work with a director if I think I'm going to get into a comfortable situation, and if it's someone I respect and who respects me, even if they're not so well known. Movies are hard to make, and you have to work toward a common ethic and do your best.
- Robert De Niro
Sometimes I can tackle an issue -homelessness, tobacco litigation, insurance fraud, the death penalty - and wrap a good story around it. These are the best books, the ones with a story and a message.
- John Grisham
There's the part that I just want what I want, and I don't want to be bothered by anything else, and sort of the short-term more compulsive self. And then that's the longer-term, aspirational self that wants to be informed about the world and wants to be a good citizen. The best media basically helps us strike a balance between those two things.
- Eli Pariser
My job as a physician is to make sure I have provided my patients with the best options to make the decisions that affect their lives.
- Ami Bera
You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence.
- Charles A. Beard
In the long run, I believe that honesty is definitely the best policy. One can get away by being dishonest for a short term, but ultimately, honesty is what pays.
- Kapil Dev
You know the best thing about competition? There's this whole strategy game, and when it all works out its like solving that hard math equation. You finally get the answer and you're so happy.
- Shaun White
As far as a glass ceiling, I feel that all you can do is give it your absolute best with whatever gifts the universe has given you. And if you make it in some way that other people can recognize, that's fine. But even if you don't quote-unquote make it, you're fine if you've given it your whole heart and soul.
- Alice Walker
I'm just doing the best I can now to keep this going... trying to grow up and remain young at the same time.
- Stevie Ray Vaughan
I try to motivate people and align our individual incentives with organizational incentives. And then let people do their best.
- John Liu
We all prospect, and don't even know we're doing it. When you start the dating process, you are actually prospecting for the person you want to marry. When you're interviewing employees, you are prospecting for someone who will best fit your needs.
- Zig Ziglar
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions.
- Lord Byron
Mechanization best serves mediocrity.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
Leadership consists of picking good men and helping them do their best.
- Chester W. Nimitz
The best, most beautiful, and most perfect way that we have of expressing a sweet concord of mind to each other is by music.
- Jonathan Edwards
The materialistic point of view in psychology can claim, at best, only the value of an heuristic hypothesis.
- Wilhelm Wundt
Any time people come together in a meeting, we're not necessarily getting the best ideas; we're just getting the ideas of the best talkers.
- Susan Cain
Discipline is knowing what you're supposed to do and doing it as best you can... On third down and short yardage, the Raiders don't jump offside. That's discipline - not a coat and tie, not a clean shave.
- John Madden
The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.
- Winston Churchill
The wildest colts make the best horses.
- Plutarch
No matter the nationality, no matter the religion, no matter the ethnic background, America brings out the best in people.
- Arnold Schwarzenegger
Go right straight down the road, to do what is best, and to do it frankly and without evasion.
- George C. Marshall
A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.
- B. F. Skinner
My dad said to me, 'Work hard and be patient.' It was the best advice he ever gave me. You have to put the hours in.
- Simon Cowell
I know I want to always do the best I can.
- Adam Sandler
The best way to get along is never to forgive an enemy or forget a friend.
- Walter Winchell
I'm full of fears and I do my best to avoid difficulties and any kind of complications. I like everything around me to be clear as crystal and completely calm.
- Alfred Hitchcock
It won't do away with hierarchy totally, but the principal leader will be the person who most exemplifies the kind of organization and behavior required who is best able to create the conditions such organizations require.
- Dee Hock
You teach best what you most need to learn.
- Richard Bach
The best fights don't occur between strangers. They occur between friends who trust each other.
- Chuck Palahniuk
In golf, the player, coach and official are rolled into one, and they overlap completely. Golf really is the best microcosm of life - or at least the way life should be.
- Lou Holtz
The best loved by God are those that are rich, yet have the humility of the poor, and those that are poor and have the magnanimity of the rich.
- Saadi