The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways.

Do not let your grand ambitions stand in the way of small but meaningful accomplishments.

Courtesy is a silver lining around the dark clouds of civilization; it is the best part of refinement and in many ways, an art of heroic beauty in the vast gallery of man's cruelty and baseness.

The best way to keep your friends is not to give them away.

The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.

The best way to escape from your problem is to solve it.