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.

The best way of removing negativity is to laugh and be joyous.

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.

Men are like wine - some turn to vinegar, but the best improve with age.

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 Lord gets his best soldiers out of the highlands of affliction.