If you want to be popular all the time, you will misgovern

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.

Stop giving complaints to people about what you can't do. Start giving compliments to God for what you can do. It'll amaze you

I don't think everybody in Vermont loves me.

The best place to solve a problem is on paper.

Since I was a teenager, I wanted to be in a band with my mates, my pure image of a band.

But I want to tell my stories, more than that, I have to in order to stay sane.

To my mind, Swaraj based on nonviolence is the fulfillment of the constructive programme.

I see myself being married to my girlfriend and backpacking all over the world. If I can go out and do a 15-mile hike and climb a 12,000-ft. peak, I'm good to go.

THE BIGGEST TEST FOR PARENTS IS NOT HOW THEY PARENT, BUT HOW THEY RESPOND TO DISORDER AND UNPREDICTABILITY

Why can’t I try on different lives, like dresses, to see which fits best and is more becoming?

One's desire, not ability, determines success.