“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.”

“Peu importe ce que vous êtes. Soyez bons.”

“I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.”

“You can lose everything in life,but not dreams.”

“If I do good, I feel good...If I do bad, I feel bad”

“I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; and I mean to keep doing so until the end. If the end brings me out all right, what is said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, ten angels swearing I was right would make no difference.”

“Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent a new nation, conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” 

“A nation that does not honor its heroes will not long endure.”

“Let me not be understood as saying that there are no bad laws, nor that grievances may not arise for the redress of which no legal provisions have been made. I mean to say no such thing. But I do mean to say that although bad laws, if they exist, should be repealed as soon as possible, still, while they continue in force, for the sake of example they should be religiously observed.”

“If my father's son can become President of these United States, then your father's son can become anything he wishes.”

“The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves.”

“The written word may be man's greatest invention. It allows us to converse with the dead, the absent, and the unborn.”

“He has a right to criticize, who has a heart to help.”

“Anybody will do for you, but not for me. I must have somebody.”

“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.”