Maybe yes, but probably not. At each stage I made what was then the best choice. Having taken that decision, I changed direction and there was no turning back.

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.

We fool ourselves so much we could do it for a living.

If we're mad, we're mad in large numbers, at least larger than yours.

No matter how high you climb, there will always be a room for you to turn your creativity and productivity up some notches.

A happy life has never been the outcome of dragging the negative experiences that belong in one's past into one's present and future.

We'll find out soon enough," Xavier growled. "You don't see too many V Star 250s around here" "How do you know the bike model?" I asked. "I'm a boy. We like engines

I'm feeling a kind of liberty to write about what's interesting to me without worrying about what I should be writing about. And that feels good.

Since the child knew his parents would give in, he tried the same trick again and again.

You might be a redneck if you have flowers planted in a bathroom appliance in your front yard.

I want to stay away from politics, or else I'll probably end up putting my size fifteen foot into my mouth