The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

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

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts or at best part of the public character or at worst catchwords.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

There's a victory and defeat the first and best of victories the lowest and worst of defeats which each man gains or sustains at the hands not of another but of himself.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

I'm selfish impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes I'm out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend one human soul whom we can trust utterly who knows the best and worst of us and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

I am prepared for the worst but hope for the best.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this we are less prone to hate our enemies.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times it's the only time we've got.

The worst men often give the best advice.

It was the best of times it was the worst of times.

I am as bad as the worst but thank God I am as good as the best.

At his best man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing the next best thing is the wrong thing and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

The truth of the matter is beauty is a specific thing rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.

Somehow the greater the public opposition to the health care bill the more determined they seem to force it on us anyway. Their attitude shows Washington at its very worst - the presumption that they know best and they're going to get their way whether the American people like it or not.

Too many people say to their brokers I can't deal with this. Take my money. Do what you want. That's the worst attitude you can have.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

The New York art world readily proves people wrong. Just when folks say that things stink and flibbertigibbet critics wish the worst on us all because we're not pure enough good omens appear.

Shock confusion fear anger grief and defiance. On Sept. 11 2001 and for the three days following the worst terrorist attack on U.S. soil President George W. Bush led with raw emotion that reflected the public's whipsawing stages of acceptance.