As long as you try your best, that is all that matters. You don't have to be the fastest runner or top of the class.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry.

The top of one mountain is always the bottom of another.

I don't care how young I am, I'm going to work until I'm at the top.

The ladder of success is never crowded at the top.

Love is an ice cream sundae, with all the marvelous coverings. Sex is the cherry on top.

Getting to the top is not so easy; staying there is more difficult.

It is more difficult to stay on top than to get there.

A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it.

I think my top salary was maybe in 1966. I made $17,000 and 11 of that came from selling other players' equipment.

Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.

I love making buckwheat crepes with ham, Parmesan cheese, and a fried egg on top. It's my go-to breakfast.

What my father gave me more than anything else is great tutoring and a great brain, frankly. You know, my father's brother was a top person at MIT, went to MIT, graduated from MIT, was a teacher at MIT, a professor at MIT, a great engineer. I mean, you know, I have very good genes.

If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

There is always room at the top.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

My top most priority is to deal with India's massive social and economic problems, so that chronic poverty, ignorance and disease can be conquered in a reasonably short period of time.

The day you take complete responsibility for yourself, the day you stop making any excuses, that's the day you start to the top.

I wouldn't say I was the best manager in the business. But I was in the top one.