“The best book is but the record of the best life.”

“People are best on records and books because you can turn them off or put them back on the shelf.”

“Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.”

“[T]he effects of general change [in literature] are most tellingly recorded not in alteration of the best products, but in the transformation of the most ordinary workaday books; for when potboilers adopt the new style, then the revolution is complete.”

“Books and beer are the best and worst defense.”

“Of all things, I liked books best.”

“History is the record of a vast experimental investigation—of a search by man after the best conditions of existence.”

“The best use of life is love. The best expression of love is time. The best time to love is now.”

“The minute I started breaking the all-time record in record sales—I broke Elvis's records, I broke Beatles records—the minute it became the all-time best-selling album in the history of the Guinness Book of World Records, overnight they called me a freak. They called me a homosexual. They called me a child molester. They said I bleached my skin. They made everything to turn the public against me.”

“He is, in my opinion, the best midfielder in the world, and has a track record for delivering on the big occasions.”