Read as widely and as deeply as you can. You have to be a reader before you can be a writer.

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.

This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their degree, but most of all beware this boy.

We might feel we have achieved a lot. . just take a pause and look back. . We will see only darkness....

The good should be grateful to the bad - for providing the world with a basis for comparison.

It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful.

You have to learn to hallucinate.

Man has learned to cope with all questions of importance without recourse to God as a working hypothesis.

Fischer does not merely outplay opponents; he leaves them bodily and mentally glutted. Fisher himself speaks of the exultant instant in which he feels the 'ego of the other player crumbling.'

Best not to mix the past with the present. The present paints the past with gold. The past paints the present with lead.

When we truly realize that we are all alone is when we need others the most.

Bears," I muttered, adding a new fear to the pile. "That would be just her luck, wouldn't it? Stray bear in town. OF course it would head straight for Bella.