Abraham Lincoln

"In this sad world of ours sorrow comes to all and it often comes with bitter agony. Perfect relief is not possible except with time. You cannot now believe that you will ever feel better. But this is not true. You are sure to be happy again. Knowing this, truly believing it will make you less miserable now. I have had enough experience to make this statement."

"I hope to stand firm enough to not go backward, and yet not go forward fast enough to wreck the country's cause."

"All I have learned, I learned from books."

"My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read."

"I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all."

"I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life."

"Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it."

"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."

"The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearth-stone, all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.--as quoted in THE RIVER OF WINGED DREAMS"

"It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him."

"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it."

"If there is anything that links the human to the divine, it is the courage to stand by a principle when everybody else rejects it."

"My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right."

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."

"If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854."

"A house divided cannot stand."

"I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God."

"I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day."