"Nearly all the best things that came to me in life have been unexpected, unplanned by me." ― Carl Sandburg Topic(s): Best More From Carl Sandburg "Back of every mistaken venture and defeat is the laughter of wisdom, if you listen." "To be a good loser is to learn how to win." "Let the gentle bush dig its root deep and spread upward to split the boulder." More In Best "So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it."― Haniel Long "We would all like to vote for the best man but he is never a candidate."― Kin Hubbard "He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind, and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."― Walter Scott