There is nothing left to do but get drunk.

If your past is limited, your future is boundless.

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.

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.

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.

Is it possible not to ever know your type-not to even know you have a type-until quite suddenly you do?

We don't even realize something is broken until someone else shows us a better way

even though disease and sorrow are all about us, health and happiness are the normal state of man.

Be a big person; be generous of spirit; be the person you'd admire.

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

I remember being young in the 1960s. We had a great sense of the future, a great big hope. This is what is missing in the youth today. This being able to dream and to change the world.

None of my problems come from the people I've killed.

What does it matter, all is grace.

I'm a bad liar; I don't know what to say backstage.

History has its truth; and so has legend hers.