ABRAHAM LINCOLN

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

"When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion."

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

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

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."

"I don't like that man. I must get to know him better."

"There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes."

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

"When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on."

"I am a slow walker, but I never walk back."

"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time."

"Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves."

"All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

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

"I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil 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."

"I will prepare and some day my chance will come."

"Every man's happiness is his own responsibility."

"No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar."

"I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it."

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe."

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

"You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."

"If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee."

"It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't."

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

"You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry."

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

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

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

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

"I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise."

"The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just."

"When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say."

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

"The greatest fine art of the future will be the making of a comfortable living from a small piece of land."

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

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

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

"The man who murdered his parents, and then pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan."

"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."

"Determine that the thing can and shall be done and then, find the way."

"Whatever you are, be a good one."