He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, whose brow is branded with infamy.
Never give up on what you really want to do
Sometimes the heart sees what is invisible to the eye.
Never make fun of someone who speaks broken English. It means they know another language.
Don't say you don't have enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given to Helen Keller, Pasteur, Michaelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo da Vinci, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Life doesn't require that we be the best, only that we try our best.
Believe in miracles but don't depend on them.
As every student in Philosophy 101 learns, nothing can force me to believe that anyone except me is conscious. This power to deny that other people have feelings is not just an academic exercise but an all-too-common vice, as we see in the long history of human cruelty.
A government big enough to give you everything you want is big enough to take everything you have.
I never wanted to be a public speaker.
The Emancipation Proclamation is predicated upon the idea that the President may so annul the constitutions and laws of sovereign states, overthrow their domestic relations, deprive loyal men of their property, and disloyal as well, without trial or condemnation.