It's better to fly and stay alive than to die a hero.
It is better to be a coward for a minute than dead for the rest of your life.
A kind speech and forgiveness is better than alms followed by injury.
If you believe everything you read, you had better not read.
It's better to drink and feel sick than not to drink and feel bad.
If you can't dance well, you'd better not get up.
Your close neighbor is better than your faraway brother.
Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.
It is better to skip one meal than to consult a hundred doctors.
It is better to make money in the straw market than to lose it in the money market.
Better be an old man's darling than a young man's slave.
It is better to be without a wife for a bit than without tobacco for an hour.
It is better to lose a minute in your life, than to lose your life in a minute.
A clock that stands still is better than one that goes wrong.
I am struck by how sharing our weakness and difficulties is more nourishing to others than sharing our qualities and successes.
We are less interested in the number of disciples and more interested in the quality of discipleship.
We never know the quality of someone else's life, though we seldom resist the temptation to assume and pass judgement.
Between two brains, there will always be misunderstandings and lies caused by parasitic smells, drafts and poor-quality reception.
People could say a lot of negative things about the apocalypse, but there was no arguing the air quality in Los Angeles had really improved.
She understood children, and knew that they were adults handicapped by a humiliating disguise and had their adult qualities within them.
It's about the quality of the worry," I said. "I have happier worries now than I used to.
