Holding a grudge hurts the one holding it more than the one it's held against... All that wasted time and energy... Let it go." L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

Do not pray for an easy life, pray for the strength to endure a difficult one

Make at least one definite move daily toward your goal.

A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday does not know where it is today.

Mr. Blair, I look upon secession as anarchy. If I owned the four millions of slaves in the South, I would sacrifice them all to the Union; but how can I draw my sword upon Virginia, my native State?

There are few, I believe, in this enlightened age, who will not acknowledge that slavery as an institution is a moral and political evil.

A land without memories is a people without liberty.

Remember, we are all one country now. Dismiss from your mind all sectional feeling, and bring them up to be Americans.

I have always observed that wherever you find the negro, everything is going down around him, and wherever you find the white man, you see everything around him improving.

You cannot change any society unless you take responsibility for it, unless you see yourself as belonging to it and responsible for changing it.

Everybody wants happiness, and nobody wants pain, but you can't have a rainbow without a little rain.

ليس لأحدنا أن يتنبّأ بأحداث اللحظة القادمة ، ومع ذلك ترانا نمضي قُدُماً ، لأننا نمتلك الثقة ، ولأننا نتحلّى بالإيمان

It's a shame that we have to choose between two such second-rate countries as the USSR and the USA.

You'll never be completely sure about the first move, but do it anyway.

To go against the grain is the secret of bravery.

You won't catch me giving clear lectures.

Honourable mention encourages science, and merit is fostered by praise.

There are Russian spies here now. And if we're lucky, they'll steal some of our secrets and they'll be two years behind.

We're always going to be cherry-picking to make religion make sense. Especially in the modern context.

I never knew a trader in philanthropy who was not wrong in his head or heart somewhere or other.

I feel blessed to have had such a background, where animals, food raising, harvesting and canning were a natural part of life.