Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else. Mos Def
You may call God love, you may call God goodness. But the best name for God is compassion. Meister Eckhart
I want to talk to the bullied kids of the world. Tell them to hang on, it will get better. Know that an 'Iron Chef,' actors, musicians, artists and all successful people have probably been bullied in their life. And the best part of your life is yet to come. Whatever it takes to live, do it! Cat Cora
Beer, it's the best damn drink in the world. Jack Nicholson
If anything I try to write something that would be more difficult to film. I tend to see film as competition and would like instead to do what books do best. Chuck Palahniuk
Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything. Chuck Palahniuk
The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition. John Ruskin
Everyone is your best friend when you are successful. Make sure that the people that you surround yourself with are also the people that you are not afraid of failing with. Paula Abdul
A majority is always better than the best repartee. Benjamin Disraeli
The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind. Benjamin Disraeli
Words are not as satisfactory as we should like them to be, but, like our neighbours, we have got to live with them and must make the best and not the worst of them. Samuel Butler
This is the patent age of new inventions for killing bodies, and for saving souls. All propagated with the best intentions. Lord Byron
It's best to have failure happen early in life. It wakes up the Phoenix bird in you so you rise from the ashes. Anne Baxter
At best the family teaches the finest things human beings can learn from one another generosity and love. But it is also, all too often, where we learn nasty things like hate, rage and shame. Barbara Ehrenreich
The best thing commercially, which is the worst artistically, by and large, is the most successful. Orson Welles
In the beginning there was the word. The word was Jah. The word is in I, Jah is in I. I make what is good, better, and what is better, best. I follow this in every aspect of life. Peter Tosh
I don't care whether people like me or dislike me. I'm not on earth to win a popularity contest. I'm here to be the best human being I possibly can be. Tab Hunter
The promises of this world are, for the most part, vain phantoms and to confide in one's self, and become something of worth and value is the best and safest course. Michelangelo
The best ideas come as jokes. Make your thinking as funny as possible. David Ogilvy
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves. Alexis de Tocqueville