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.

If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

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

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.

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.

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

What if I were seeking a hardcopy? A book I can bury my nose in metaphorically and literally if I'm a self-confessed book-sniffer and proud to say so.

The more she thought about it, the angrier she became. She was who she was - she'd been born this way, Why should she have to change who she was to satisfy someone else?

It is often easier to become outraged by injustice half a world away than by oppression and discrimination half a block from home.

President Obama is in China. Today he visited the kids who make our cellphones.

Something comes along and you have to jump on and do it. You can't stop until it's done.

There's fire in my fingers. I burn everything I touch.

What is my personal strategy for the next 10 hours? Who can I talk with or what can I volunteer for to learn something new?

Satan can only attack us from the outside in. He may work through the lust and sensations of the body or through the mind and emotion of the soul, for those two belong to the outward man.

I am not reggae, I am me. I am bigger than the limits that are put on me. It all has to do with the individual journey.