We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.
If you felt that excitement when you voted for Barack Obama, shouldn't you feel that way now that he's President Obama? You know there's something wrong with the kind of job he's done as president when the best feeling you had was the day you voted for him.
The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.
A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.
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.
I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are, not the worst of what Europe has become.
The strength and power and goodness of America has always been based on the strength and power and goodness of our communities, our families, our faiths. That is the bedrock of what makes America, America. In our best days, we can feel the vibrancy of America's communities, large and small.
I have long since come to believe that people never mean half of what they say, and that it is best to disregard their talk and judge only their actions.
Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me.
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.
Surround yourself with good people. Whether they're the best or not, people are capable of learning if they've got good hearts and they're good souls.
Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.
Cheerfulness is the best promoter of health and is as friendly to the mind as to the body.
The best weapon of a dictatorship is secrecy, but the best weapon of a democracy should be the weapon of openness.
I think what makes our marriage work amid all the glare is that my husband is my best friend. He inspires everything in my life and enables me to do the best that I can. I want to hang out with him more than anyone.
Now I see the secret of making the best person: it is to grow in the open air and to eat and sleep with the earth.
Laughter is not a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is the best ending for one.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.
I owe my success to having listened respectfully to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
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 and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
The best argument I know for an immortal life is the existence of a man who deserves one.
Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.
Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.
Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.
That best portion of a man's life, his little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and love.
I lead no party I follow no leader. I have given the best part of my life to careful study of Islam, its law and polity, its culture, its history and its literature.
I don't want to do business with those who don't make a profit, because they can't give the best service.
No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for education no man's education is complete.
Use what talents you possess the woods would be very silent if no birds sang there except those that sang best.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
I don't know why, it's the same reason why you like some music and you don't like others. There's something about it that you like. Ultimately I don't find it's in my best interests to try and analyze it, since it's fundamentally emotional.
I am not a perfect servant. I am a public servant doing my best against the odds. As I develop and serve, be patient. God is not finished with me yet.
Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.