What a beautiful world God, in His loving kindness to His creatures, has given us! What a shame that men endowed with reason and knowledge of right should mar His gifts.

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.

Lately I find myself staring at people’s faces... I find myself frantically searching through the crowds for one face. I don’t find that face

Eloquence is the poetry of prose.

When you get to the end of your rope tie a knot and hang on.

Here hath been dawning another blue day: think wilt thou let it slip useless away?

Written poetry is worth reading once, and then should be destroyed. Let the dead poets make way for others.

Don't be scared to dream big, and don't be afraid to be close to people. And never give up! It's the tenacious not the talented that win.

Flattery is praise without foundation.

In America there's no way I can make the kind of movie I like to make.

Time is but the shadow of the world upon the background of Eternity.

I believe in the age of the Internet, Facebook and Twitter, that relationships are everything.