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Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.

Lying in bed would be an altogether perfect and supreme experience if only one had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.

Only time, education and plenty of good schooling will make anti-segregation work.

The only advantage of not being too good a housekeeper is that your guests are so pleased to feel how very much better they are.

I freed a thousand slaves I could have freed a thousand more if only they knew they were slaves.

Start with God - the first step in learning is bowing down to God; only fools thumb their noses at such wisdom and learning.

Only God can look at somebody's heart.

The only time to buy these is on a day with no "y" in it.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Be Impeccable With Your Word. Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary; the evil it does is permanent.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.

I like not only to be loved, but also to be told I am loved.

Without freedom, no art; art lives only on the restraints it imposes on itself, and dies of all others.

God not only plays dice, He also sometimes throws the dice where they cannot be seen.

Art is only a means to life, to the life more abundant. It is not in itself the life more abundant. It merely points the way, something which is overlooked not only by the public, but very often by the artist himself. In becoming an end it defeats itself.

The only difference between death and taxes is that death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.

The only time a man thinks is when he's alone.

Obstacles are necessary for success because in selling, as in all careers of importance, victory comes only after many struggles and countless defeats.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

For centuries, New York has served as the gateway for millions of people from all over the world in search of the American dream. It only makes sense that it would now serve as a gateway for the world's greatest athletes.

There are hundreds of millions of gun owners in this country, and not one of them will have an accident today. The only misuse of guns comes in environments where there are drugs, alcohol, bad parents, and undisciplined children. Period.

The only time I would like to see was the 20s and 30s in America because I love the music and the style and the optimism, I wanted to see New York being built. I wanted to see all that, you know.