Abraham Lincoln was not philosopher, exactly. But he did have a strong mind, which sought generalizations as well as particulars. He had a terrific memory.

Abraham Lincoln had great clarity of mind and expression, and he worked to make it clearer -reading Euclid in his early 30s to train his mind.

After I published a book called Lincoln's Virtues a wit said that my next book should be Lincoln's Vices. But in my opinion that would be a short book!

There was specific constitutional provision for emergency measures in the case that Abraham Lincoln faced - an insurrection - which no other president has faced.

The US did not have any big supply of good generals in Civil War, and some it did have went with the rebels. If Robert E.Lee had stayed with his country the story would have been different.

Don´t ever scared to dream because everything is possible no matter how bizarre.

When you're dead, you're dead, and that's that.

I think if you just look at life in a positive way, positive things will happen.

The question of the family now divides our society so deeply that the opposing sides cannot even agree on a definition of the institution they are arguing about.

Any disease could be healed in a matter of days - any disease - if distraction from it could occur and a different vibration dominate.

As you get older you have to force yourself to have new dreams.

Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.

The only time is Now. All other times - past, present, and parallel - can be accessed in this moment of Now, and may be changed for the better.

Wasn't that the point to being married? That you had a partner, someone you trusted, to help with important decisions.

Why do people not confess vices? It is because they have not yet laid them aside. It is a waking person only who can tell their dreams.