Abraham Lincoln

I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.

I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all.

The best way to predict your future is to create it.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to what light I have.

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.

Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself.

I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me.

The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.

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

My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.

Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.

Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Fourscore 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.

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?