There are too many windbags in this world. Speak only when you are competent in a subject - It produces dignity." - L. R. W. Lee Andy Smithson: Blast of the Dragon's Fury

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.

The president notices that when he takes off his coat to dig, people take more notice of the visual than they did his preceding remarks.

The defects of a preacher are soon spied.

The evening sings in a voice of amber, the dawn is surely coming.

People are not considerate of others. They tend not to consider themselves as all living together, but see themselves only as individuals.

Because Olivia Newton-John wasn't from Nashville, they didn't like her winning our awards. I've got no complaints.

As long as we are not ourselves, we will try to be what other people are.

Because I had sought to challenge Destiny, Destiny had taken vengeance.

Your decision to walk creates the path ahead

I am really focused on how I can improve myself and the world around me.

Belief is a form of infantilism. There is no ground for believing anything.