We must forgive our enemies. I can truly say that not a day has passed since the war began that I have not prayed for them.

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.

I believe it to be the duty of everyone to unite in the restoration of the country and the reestablishment of peace and harmony.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.

So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that slavery is abolished.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

You live in the image you have of the world. Every one of us lives in a different world, with different space and different time.

I sweat real sweat and I shake real shakes.

We are never more than a belief away from our greatest love, deepest healing, and most profound miracles.

You can acquire chic and elegance, but style itself is a rare thing.

Movies find me, and I kind of just allow them to find me.

I also wanted people to know that football actually started in China almost 3000 years ago.

Poison's not bad. It's a matter of how much.

I learned that as long as I had anything in my heart or head I still felt necessary to hide, it would not work. I had to come to peace with everything.

It never hurts to think too highly of a person; often they become ennobled and act better because of it.

I am sad, like the hot dust on the streets And the music of fresh fallen leaves Caught in a sliding summer breeze.