Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.

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 best way to pay for a lovely moment is to enjoy it.

A man's friendships are one of the best measures of his worth.

In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country whole and intact to shatter and destroy it is not so good.

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.

When a place gets crowded enough to require ID's, social collapse is not far away. It is time to go elsewhere. The best thing about space travel is that it made it possible to go elsewhere.

For a long time now I have tried simply to write the best I can. Sometimes I have good luck and write better than I can.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

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