It's often said that leadership is the art of getting people to do what you want, and making them think it's what they want. This captures a lot of what Abraham Lincoln did.

It is possible to have pardon without forgiveness-a murderer can be pardoned by the governor, but that does not mean the victim's family has forgiven him. And there can be forgiveness without pardon.

The one who pursues revenge should dig two graves.

Patriotism without criticism has no head; criticism without patriotism has no heart.

No one loves an archive better than I do. I can smell a good one half-a-block away - all that brittle papyrus dust is music to my nostrils.

Stephen A.Douglas was a risk-taker by temperament; I expect that Lincoln - Douglas debates represented another risk he just couldn't resist. He lived to regret it.

Do not forget about the butterflies.

Maybe it's oldest-child syndrome, but I have always been competitive, even as a kid with sports. It spills into my career.

I think a lot of bands are influenced by religious symbolism and not even necessarily Christianity or Catholicism.

My most important problem was destroying the lines of demarcation that separate what seems real from what seems fantastic.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

I have no complex about wealth. I have worked very hard for my money; producing things people need.

You are going somewhere. Every day. Every experience you get. You're moving forward.

Thats usually what I gravitate to, I read The Perfect Storm, then I read Into Thin Air .

While everybody is trying to be different, everybody becomes, obviously, the same, so it's finding what makes you special and then kind of sharing it with the world; it's what makes you a superstar.

I was one of the loneliest people on the planet. You can be incredibly well known and very alone. And thats who I was. I was a well-known person who was very alone.