If I could save the Union without freeing any slave, I would do it.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

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

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

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

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

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

Rock bottom became the solid foundation on which I rebuilt my life.

How many miles to Babylon?Three score and ten!Can I get there by candle light?Yes, and back again!

The only person that you should live your life competing against, is nobody else but your old self.

The Government are very keen on amassing statistics - they collect them, add them, raise them to the nth power, take the cube root and prepare wonderful diagrams.

You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.

I love women that have an ease to the way they dress. I think Vanessa Paradis and Alexa Chung do that very well.

The New York Times is the greatest media company around, arguably, and the people at the New York Times know a lot more about making a giant successful media company than I do.

The more you know about your customers, the more you can provide to them information that is increasingly useful, relevant, and persuasive.

Everything's going to be fine. She'll be back at work soon. Let's just keep the house clean." Oh yeah, I want to say, because a clean house will result in peace in the Middle East as well.

I mean, I like to consider myself a reasonably athletic guy.