It is an irrepressible conflict between opposing and enduring forces.

The whole hope of human progress is suspended on the ever-growing influence of the Bible.

The two systems slave and free-labor are incompatible. They have never permanently existed together in one country, and they never can.

We show our sympathy with slavery by emancipating slaves where we cannot reach them, and holding them in bondage where we can set them free.

Simultaneously with the establishment of the Constitution, Virginia ceded to the United States her domain, which then extended to the Mississippi, and was even claimed to extend to the Pacific Ocean.

It is the maintenance of slavery by law in a state, not parallels of latitude, that makes its a southern state; and the absence of this, that makes it a northern state.

Revolutions never go backward.

No man will ever be President of the United States who spells 'negro' with two gs.

There is a higher law than the Constitution.

I know and all the world knows, that revolutions never go backwards.

But there is a higher law than the Constitution, which regulates our authority over the domain, and devotes it to the same noble purposes.

The art of being wise is to respond to everything with kindness and love.

She knew the soothing power of a human touch on aching flesh. Knew the strange bond that formed when two creatures united in mutual need, one hurting, the other healing.

Love your work and success is your next customer.

The brain has a quality referred to as plasticity. The ability to form new neural pathways even into very old age. The brain is fluid, flexible and incredibly adaptable to new experiences.

You used to have to beg and be the busboy to do standup. I got on Community because people saw my videos on YouTube, which were free.

You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.

My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

I'm not railing, 'This is inadequate' or 'This isn't right.' Just show me what will work.

Courage in danger is half the battle. [Lat., Bonus animus in mala re, dimidium est mali.]

It's no coincidence that Superman's parents are Joseph and Martha Kent.