“See you and me, have a better time than most can dream.
Have it better than the best, so we can pull on through.
Whatever tears at us… whatever holds us down,
And if nothing can be done, well make the best of whats around.”

“Do not be embarrassed by your mistakes. Nothing can teach us better than our understanding of them. This is one of the best ways of self-education.”

“No exercise of will can make any of us other than what we are, or more than marginally better than who we are.”

“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.”

“He has called on the best that was in us. There was no such thing as half-trying. Whether it was running a race or catching a football, competing in school—we were to try. And we were to try harder than anyone else. We might not be the best, and none of us were, but we were to make the effort to be the best. "After you have done the best you can", he used to say, "the hell with it."”

“Never try to be better than somebody else. But most importantly, never cease trying to be the best you can be.”

“Time is what you have left.... you just march with it and use it the best you can.”

“You can't just stand and say to yourself, 'OK, right now I'm the best. That's it. No more working.' If you're a good player you have to be working harder and harder. This is not just my goal, it's my team goal. We can improve more and we can probably be even better than last year. My dream is to be the best.”

“Machines, no matter how sophisticated, can only follow programs. If we sleepwalk through our lives, then we’re no better than machines. Only humans are capable of a job done well -- which means thinking about the consequences of our actions. A job done well pays the bills, but it also improves the lives of everyone around us.”

“This is the world we live in, Gemma, for better or for worse. Make of it what you can," he says, and I pull him to me.”