I am someone who hopes for the best and prepares for the worst.

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven the best to hell.

I want you to remember when our White House reflected the best of who we are not the worst of what Europe has become.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

The best lack all conviction while the worst are full of passionate intensity.

All significant truths are private truths. As they become public they cease to become truths they become facts or at best part of the public character or at worst catchwords.

In this world you've just got to hope for the best and prepare for the worst and take whatever God sends.

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.

Society in every state is a blessing but government even in its best stage is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

The worst thing that happens to you may be the best thing for you if you don't let it get the best of you.

I'm selfish impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes I'm out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.

A blessed thing it is for any man or woman to have a friend one human soul whom we can trust utterly who knows the best and worst of us and who loves us in spite of all our faults.

Expect the best. Prepare for the worst. Capitalize on what comes.

I am prepared for the worst but hope for the best.

Government even in its best state is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

We must develop and maintain the capacity to forgive. He who is devoid of the power to forgive is devoid of the power to love. There is some good in the worst of us and some evil in the best of us. When we discover this we are less prone to hate our enemies.

This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst expect the best and take what comes.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times it's the only time we've got.

The worst men often give the best advice.

It was the best of times it was the worst of times.

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

At his best man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing the next best thing is the wrong thing and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

The truth of the matter is beauty is a specific thing rare and fleeting. Some of us have it in our teens 20s and 30s and then lose it most of us have it not at all. And that's perfectly okay. But lying to yourself that you have it when you don't seems to me simple-minded at best and psychotic at worst.