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

“Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.”

“It often requires more courage to dare to do right than to fear to do wrong.”

“No man who is resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention.”

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

“There's no honorable way to kill, no gentle way to destroy. There is nothing good in war. Except its ending.”

“I never tire of reading 

“In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.”

“A universal feeling, whether well or ill-founded cannot be safely disregarded.”

“Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then... find the way.”

“The loss of enemies does not compensate for the loss of friends.”

“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.” 

“Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”

“Die when I may, I want it said of me by those who know me best, that I always plucked a thistle and planted a flower when I thought a flower would grow.”

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.”