The best thing about giving of ourselves is that what we get is always better than what we give. The reaction is greater than the action.

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.

A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.

It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws.

I always believe that to be the best you have to smell like the best dress like the best act like the best. When you throw your trash in the garbage can it has to be better than anybody else who ever threw trash in the garbage can.

Experience taught me a few things. One is to listen to your gut no matter how good something sounds on paper. The second is that you're generally better off sticking with what you know. And the third is that sometimes your best investments are the ones you don't make.

As you become more clear about who you really are you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.

I'm very proud of my love for Whitney Houston. She really changed my life. She made my life a better life. She was so beautiful in her love for God her love for her family and her love for music. She truly loved her music. She could do everything! She had flawless rhythm flawless pitch flawless feeling and flawless beauty.

Beauty can make you powerful in a way that isn't good for you. Being OK is better for the person I have become.

I look OK. I look better in person than I do on film which is bad because it's how I make my living but I am not a beauty and on balance I am glad.

My work is not about 'form follows function ' but 'form follows beauty' or even better 'form follows feminine.'

The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.

The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

I remember reminding myself that beauty is an opinion not a fact. And it has always made me feel better.

I love the game it's the greatest game on earth that's why I can't understand all of this talk about trying to make the game better. People talk about the high strike zone and changing this and that. Why? To speed up the game? That's the beauty of baseball. There is no time element.

Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty how many ghastly mortifying missteps how many days of granitic blockheadedness and dismaying ineptitude there is on the way to accomplishment how partial all accomplishment is how incomplete?

It's such a diversion to be constantly thinking of better ways I can teach people math that my hunger is for that really for new ways of translating the beauty of it.

Poetry is something to make us wiser and better by continually revealing those types of beauty and truth which God has set in all men's souls.

There are no better cosmetics than a severe temperance and purity modesty and humility a gracious temper and calmness of spirit and there is no true beauty without the signatures of these graces in the very countenance.

Anything in any way beautiful derives its beauty from itself and asks nothing beyond itself. Praise is no part of it for nothing is made worse or better by praise.

Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.

Imperfection is beauty madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring.

There is something terribly morbid in the modern sympathy with pain. One should sympathise with the colour the beauty the joy of life. The less said about life's sores the better.