If one is constantly challenged, one grows. If one becomes complacent, one stultifies.
You have only always to do what is right. It will become easier by practice, and you enjoy in the midst of your trials the pleasure of an approving conscience.
A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.
So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.
Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?
There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.
A land without memories is a people without liberty.
Memory is so corrupt that you remember only what you want to; if you want to forget about something, slowly but surely you do.
I've had to learn how to say 'no' to offers.
Design is the underlying skill that activates innovation. If you want to innovate, you've got to design.
Telling stories never fails to produce good in the universe.