By learning about the past, you are already helping a great deal toward making the future better for people of all races.

He is not only idle who does nothing, but he is idle who might be better employed.

I believe that it's better to be looked over than it is to be overlooked.

When I'm good, I'm very good. But when I'm bad I'm better.

It is better to be feared than to be loved, if you can not be both.

Things are going to get unimaginably worse, and they are never, ever, going to get better

I left the middle west for schenectady because the general electric company offered me a more congenial, better paying job than did anyone else.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

It is better to be violent, if there is violence in our hearts, than to put on the cloak of nonviolence to cover impotence.

If what one has to say is not better than silence, then one should keep silent.

If I didn't like poor people, why would I come and tell them how to make their lives better.

You don’t reinvent yourself; you get better with what you do.

There are better things ahead than what we leave behind.