If a garden is well maintained and neatly landscaped, there must be a dedicated and efficient gardener.

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.

Life of scarcity teaches creativity.

Quite the most Christian thing that has happened in my lifetime is the Welfare State.

With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.

If you want to hear God laugh, tell Him your plans.

There were the fairy tales my father told to me at bedtime. All the standards. I thought my father invented wolves.

Par toi tout le bonheur que m'offre l'avenir Est dans mon souvenir. Through you, all the happiness that the future offers Is in my memory.

Consider spending less time talking, and more time prototyping, especially if you're not very good at talking.

It is only the souls that do not love that go empty in this world.

To put it in my music, that's not the message I am trying to send out. That's not the type of artist I am trying to be.

The book which you read from a sense of duty, or because for any reason you must, does not commonly make friends with you.