You must study to be frank with the world: Frankness is the child of honesty and courage.

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.

Healing doesn’t mean forgetting or making the memories insignificant. Healing means refocusing

No matter how great the initial chemistry is, if your values are on two different pages, the odds of your marriage working decrease significantly.

The spirit is liquid and easily flows and surges, sinking and boiling with the currents of circumstances. Bringing every thought into the obedience of Christ is no easy-chair job.

One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living.

The state of presence is the only state in which creative energy is available to you.

One has to live in Washington to know what a city of rumors it is.

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

If we dare to come closer to our fellow human beings, we will be able to see and understand them better.

The painter puts brush to canvas, and the poet puts pen to paper. The poet has the easier task, for his pen does not alter his rhyme.

I have a personal motto that I live by, which is feel the fear and do it anyway. If you fail, you get up and you keep trying again.