Abraham Lincoln

"You can have anything you want if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose."

"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."

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

"My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth."

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother."

"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."

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

"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."

"Upon the subject of education, not presuming to dictate any plan or system respecting it, I can only say that I view it as the most important subject which we as a people can be engaged in."

"Get books, sit yourself down anywhere, and go to reading them yourself."

"No man is poor who has a Godly mother."

"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."

"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."

"A capacity, and taste, for reading, gives access to whatever has already been discovered by others. It is the key, or one of the keys, to the already solved problems. And not only so. It gives a relish, and facility, for successfully pursuing the [yet] unsolved ones."

"The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them."

"Achievement has no color"

"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world."

"The best way to predict your future is to create it"

"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."