We must look to the rising generation for the restoration of the country.

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.

One of the most sincere forms of respect is actually listening to what another has to say.

Everyone is flailing through this life without an owner's manual, with whatever modicum of grace and good humor we can manage.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

What signifies knowing the Names, if you know not the Natures of things.

three-fourths of all marriages are unhappy.

My must-have hair products are Phyto silk spray and Kusco-Murphy setting lotion.

A kid once said to me "Do you get hangovers?" I said, "To get hangovers you have to stop drinking.

It's not a defeat nor an obstacle that is going to get in the way of our dream, my dream continues, the journey continues

I used to act in college, but always comedy. Didn't do [William] Shakespeare - did Ben Jonson.

Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.