Oh, that [his Thanksgiving Message] is some of Seward's nonsense, and it pleases the fools.

I will prepare, and someday my chance will come.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

No man is poor who has a Godly mother.

Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.

And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.

We the people are the rightful masters of both Congress and the courts, not to overthrow the Constitution but to overthrow the men who pervert the Constitution.

America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.

There are some cities in the world, they would have looked much more beautiful had they never been a city and İstanbul is such a city!

The body is a sacred garment.

I'm really worried about my girlfriend's morals ... she has NEXT written on her knickers.

I'll say it again, for every moment you're with the wrong person, you are robbing yourself and the right person of the opportunity to find real happiness.

Jazz music is a style, not compositions; any kind of music may be played in Jazz if one has the knowledge.

No matter how quietly homophobia is whispered, it doesn't make it any less loud. You can't whisper hate.

It is of the small joys and little pleasures that the greatest of our days are built.

Feelings are just visitors, let them come and go.

One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

He that never changes his opinions, never corrects his mistakes, will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.