I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night's rest was best in any event.

Then, I started running. And everything was as good as it could be.

Motherhood, in the sense of an intense, reciprocal relationship with a particular child, or children, is one part of female process; it is not an identity for all time.

... family and friends aren't always ready to make the journey when you are, and you just have to keep plowing along whether they have confidence in you or not. That can be very lonely.

By going and coming, a bird weaves its nest.

Standing in our power demands that we be vulnerable, listen to our own voice, and take risks outside the comfort of what we know.

Most success depends on colleagues, on the team. People at the top have large egos, but you must never say 'I': it's always 'we'.

In the big picture we are all eternal.

I was fifteen years old, and I hardly knew how to play a simple Bach prelude on the piano when I began to compose music, and at the most advanced level. I had never studied such things as harmony.

Got more milky syllables than alphabet cereals.

We asked the workers to give up 25 percent of their salaries. Imagine! We asked the industrialists to freeze all costs, no matter what the inflation is.