We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice... - Abraham Lincoln
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."
"We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses."
"That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well."
"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"
"Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be."
"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing."