It must be felt that there is no national security but in the nation's humble, acknowledged dependence upon God and His overruling providence.

If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

While men inhabiting different parts of this vast continent cannot be expected to hold the same opinions, they can unite in a common objective and sustain common principles.

You have summoned me in my weakness. You must sustain me in your strength.

I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion.

With the Union my best and dearest earthly hopes are entwined.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.

I can express no better hope for my country than that the kind Providence which smiled upon our fathers may enable their children to preserve the blessings they have inherited.

Death waits for no man - and if he does, he doesn't usually wait for very long.

If the road to your dreams is full of potholes, take the highway.

Having friends who are records nerds - that's the best thing you can do, have a record-geek friend to take you far.

I feel like when I was 13 and I had to go to bar mitzvahs every weekend. This is the same feeling. You have to put on a suit every weekend to go meet with a bunch of Jews.

The Law given from Sinai was a civil and municipal as well as a moral and religious code.

God uses lust to impel men to marry, ambition to office, avarice to earning, and fear to faith. God led me like an old blind goat.

Progress in painting, there's no such thing! ...One day I went and changed the yellow on my palette. Well, the result was, I floundered for ten years!

I have a deep affinity for New Orleans - its like a second home to me - they treat me like I'm their own.

I believe in America because we have great dreams, and because we have the opportunity to make those dreams come true.