I am neither frustrated nor planning anything other than being the best Secretary of State I could be.

The best people renounce all for one goal the eternal fame of mortals, but most people stuff themselves like cattle.

Surround yourself with the best people you can find delegate authority and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.

I have found the best way to give advice to your children is to find out what they want and then advise them to do it.

It is best to love wisely no doubt, but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.

I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

It's a funny thing about life, if you refuse to accept anything but the best you very often get it.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

The best mind-altering drug is the truth.

He has spent his life best who has enjoyed it most. God will take care that we do not enjoy it any more than is good for us.

That's what liberalism is all about is promoting incompetence on the basis it's fair because people would be the best if they weren't discriminated against.

At some point I would like to write a book and other things but I work best when there is some sort of deadline in my own mind, but not when fifty people or fifty million people are breathing down the back of my neck.

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 way to convince a fool that he is wrong is to let him have his own way.

The best vision is insight.

Words empty as the wind are best left unsaid.

Being good in business is the most fascinating kind of art. Making money is art and working is art and good business is the best art.

The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.

If a man does his best what else is there?

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.

Brevity is the best recommendation of speech whether in a senator or an orator.

The prizes go to those who meet emergencies successfully. And the way to meet emergencies is to do each daily task the best we can.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Party-spirit at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

No man fails who does his best.

There are people and nations, Mother, that I would like to say to you by name. I entrust them to you in silence, I entrust them to you in the way that you know best.

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

If the United Nations once admits that international disputes can be settled by using force then we will have destroyed the foundation of the organization and our best hope of establishing a world order.

The best time for you to hold your tongue is the time you feel you must say something or bust.

Set up another case bartender! The best thing for a case of nerves is a case of Scotch.

It is best to live however one can be.

Man being reasonable must get drunk, The best of life is but intoxication, Glory the grape, love gold - in these are sunk - The hopes of all men and of every nation.

In fact the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this and I am prepared to join them.

At best spiritual voices help us replace madness with clarity & violence, with compassion and peace. But we will live up to the promise only if we overcome the temptation to promote our own narrow comfort and individual peace of mind. If we fail this challenge we will not get a spiritual "new age" but a spiritual dead end.