“It was good to be alive; it was better to be young; it was best of all to be in love.”

“It is best to love wisely, no doubt; but to love foolishly is better than not to be able to love at all.”

“Dashed hopes and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested.”

“From my point of view it is better to be alive and young again, and broke, than it is to be the richest corpse in Forest Lawn.”

“Through the computer, the heralds say, we will make education better, religion better, politics better, our minds better — best of all, ourselves better. This is, of course, nonsense, and only the young or the ignorant or the foolish could believe it.”

“Lo, sleep is good, better is death--in sooth
The best of all were never to be born.”

“Love betters what is best”

“First best is falling in love. Second best is being in love. Least best is falling out of love. But any of it is better than never having been in love.”

“Being loved is a good thing. A grand thing. The best damned thing of all.”

“As a tool for the activation of specific thoughts, music is as good as language. The combination of the two—as best exemplified in the love song—is the best courtship of all.”