With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.

That deep emotional conviction of the presence of a superior reasoning power, which is revealed in the incomprehensible universe, from my idea of God.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

An investment in knowledge pays the best interest. 

We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.

If everyone is moving forward together, then success takes care of itself. 

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Facts are many, but the truth is one.

I made a mistake by being ejected from the presidency. Next time, I will choose a Cabinet which will allow me to be life President.

Memory is deceptive because it is colored by today's events.