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

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

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.

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

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it.

A tendancy to melancholy – let it be observed, is a misfortune, not a fault.

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

I will prepare and some day my chance will come.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Now a work of art is a work of nature, but it is a work of human nature. It is a work of the mind: and it’s a work of the mind in circumstances for an occasion which, to which, for which, and which it may be supremely natural and simple and effective.

Keep in mind that part of growing up is dealing with difficult issues, and the benefits can be great if you have the courage to ask for help. Human beings are not designed to go through life alone. No one has to bear the burden of tough times all by themselves.

The human race built most nobly when limitations were greatest.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

Nothing on this earth is worth buying at the price of human blood.

We all need to treat each other with human dignity and respect

I have never thought, for my part, that man’s freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.