I did not wish to take a cabin passage but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world or to make it the last.

The best smell in the world is that man that you love.

The best way to resolve any problem in the human world is for all sides to sit down and talk.

All the adversity I've had in my life all my troubles and obstacles have strengthened me... You may not realize it when it happens but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

You can't stop loving or wanting to love because when its right it's the best thing in the world. When you're in a relationship and its good even if nothing else in your life is right you feel like your whole world is complete.

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched - they must be felt with the heart.

Since we live in this world we have to do our best for this world.

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet Doctor Quiet and Doctor Merryman.

To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight and never stop fighting.

All the beauty of the world 'tis but skin deep.

There are two kinds of artists in this world those that work because the spirit is in them and they cannot be silent if they would and those that speak from a conscientious desire to make apparent to others the beauty that has awakened their own admiration.

Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.

When I first thought of the idea for 'Sweet Valley High ' I loved the idea of high school as microcosm of the real world. And what I really liked was how it moved things on from 'Sleeping Beauty'-esque romance novels where the girl had to wait for the hero. This would be girl-driven very different I decided - and indeed it is.

The beauty of dystopia is that it lets us vicariously experience future worlds - but we still have the power to change our own.