Amazing Always

 That some should be rich shows that others may become rich, and hence is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

As I would not be a slave, so I would not be a master This expresses my idea of democracy.

You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.

Everything I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time.

Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I don’t know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned
to know who his grandson will be.

No matter how much cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens

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.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

The better part of one’s life consists of his friendships.

I believe the Bible is the best gift God has ever given to men.
All the good from the Savior of the world is communicated to us through this book.

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend
is the man who’ll get me a book I ain’t read.

The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, 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 has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.

I fear explanations explanatory of things explained.

He will have to learn, I know, that all people are not just - that all men and women are not true. Teach him that for every scoundrel there is a hero that for every enemy there is a friend. Let him learn early that the bullies are the easiest people to lick.

I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.

I like to see a man proud of the place in which he lives.
I like to see a man live so that his place will be proud of him

Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare time for personal contention. Still less can he afford to take all the consequences, including the vitiating of his temper and loss of self-control.

Things may come to those who wait. But only the things left by those who hustle.

I have been driven many times to my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had nowhere else to go.