I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do.

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.

People with money tend to buy more things instead of experiences...because they don't have time.

Whether you've seen angels floating around your bedroom or just found a ray of hope at a lonely moment, choosing to believe that something unseen is caring for you can be a life-shifting exercise.

All this world's noise appears to me a dull, ill-acted comedy!

What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?

I am convinced that everyone can develop a good heart and a sense of universal responsibility with or without religion.

We see that the soul is the deepest and the most vital part of the person as a whole. It is often treated as the person, and we actually do this when we talk about "saving our soul."

Mother Earth is in pain and ailing because of global warming.

The best way to eat crabs, as everyone knows, is off newspaper at a large table with a large number of people.

Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.