Abraham Lincoln

"And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years."

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

"Whatever you are, be a good one."

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

"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."

"The philosophy of the schoolroom in one generation is the philosophy of government in the next."

"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."

"I have come to the conclusion never again to think of marrying, and for this reason, I can never be satisfied with anyone who would be blockhead enough to have me."