Proving I'm a good mother is the one achievement I'm most proud of. It's brought out the best in me.

Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

A man's sentiments are generally just and right while it is second selfish thought which makes him trim and adopt some other view. The best reforms are worked out when sentiment operates as it does in women with the indignation of righteousness.

In matters of conscience first thoughts are best. In matters of prudence last thoughts are best.

Diligence is the mother of good fortune and idleness its opposite never brought a man to the goal of any of his best wishes.

Learned Institutions ought to be favorite objects with every free people. They throw that light over the public mind which is the best security against crafty and dangerous encroachments on the public liberty.

I have always thought that change you can see and feel is best.

Philosophy begins in wonder. And at the end when philosophic thought has done its best the wonder remains.

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

We can choose a future where we export more products and outsource fewer jobs. After a decade that was defined by what we bought and borrowed we're getting back to basics and doing what America has always done best: We're making things again.

The pursuit even of the best things ought to be calm and tranquil.

I think it's brought the world a lot closer together and will continue to do that. There are downsides to everything there are unintended consequences to everything. The most corrosive piece of technology that I've ever seen is called television - but then again television at its best is magnificent.

I've always felt toward the slightest scene even if all I had to do in a scene was just to come in and say 'Hi ' that the people ought to get their money's worth and that this is an obligation of mine to give them the best you can get from me.

Our best thoughts come from others.

If liberty and equality as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

When we do the best that we can we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life of another.

I want it said of me by those who knew me best that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower where I thought a flower would grow.

Literature boils with the madcap careers of writers brought to the edge by the demands of living on their nerves wringing out their memories and their nightmares to extract meaning truth beauty.

When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High ' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven very different I decided - and indeed it is.

When you put the interest of a kid on money instead of heart then you're destroying the beauty of our lives and our thought process which should be about how much responsibilities you carry as an athlete and a citizen.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was nothing ever ran quite straight which no doubt was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth and of London as a big freckle.

The thought came to me that all one loves in art becomes beautiful. Beauty is nothing but the expression of the fact that something is being loved. Only thus could she be defined.