The same eye cannot both look up to heaven and down to earth.

Here, before God, in the presence of these witnesses, from this time, I consecrate my life to the destruction of slavery!

I am quite certain that the crimes of this guilty land will never be purged away but with blood. I had, as I now think vainly, flattered myself that without very much bloodshed it might be done.

Be mild with the mild, shrewd with the crafty, confiding to the honest, rough to the ruffian, and a thunderbolt to the liar. But in all this, never be unmindful of your own dignity.

These men are all talk; What is needed is action - action!

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

Caution, Sir! I am eternally tired of hearing that word caution. It is nothing but the word of cowardice!

The United States is a place where the men govern, but the women rule.

I cannot remember a night so dark as to have hindered the coming day.

The intent and not the deed Is in our power; and, therefore, who dares greatly Does greatly.

Holiness does not consist in mystic speculations, enthusiastic fervours, or uncommanded austerities; it consists in thinking as God thinks, and willing as God wills.

The best time to plan a tree was twenty years ago

We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for.

In Taiwan, I'd be like Michael Jordan walking down the street.

I pity anyone who can't laugh. There must be something wrong with their religion or their lives. The devil can't laugh.

Brazil is bigger than Europe, wilder than Africa, and weirder than Baffin Land.

Or - perhaps - I should just worry about my own behavior and let others be who they are.

I'm not very firey, but when I go, I go. I don't shout, I just get upset.

Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion

We are all affecting the world every moment, whether we mean to or not. Our actions and states of mind matter, because we are so deeply interconnected with one another.

I'm such a goofball - I need someone who can make fun of me.