Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.

Consider: if you incorporate those tropical countries with the Republic of the United States, you will have to incorporate their people too.

Tis not, 'my country right or wrong'; tis, 'my country, that which is right to be kept right, that which is wrong to be set right'

We have come to a point where it is loyalty to resist, and treason to submit.

Our country ... when right, to be kept right. When wrong, to be put right.

I will make a prophecy that may now sound peculiar. In fifty years Lincoln's name will be inscribed close to Washington's on this Republic's roll of honor.

From the equality of rights springs identity of our highest interests you cannot subvert your neighbor's rights without striking a dangerous blow at your own.

Les hommes construisent trop de murs et pas assez de ponts.

Christianity [is] a rebellion against natural law, a protest against nature.

I like to go to the movies or read.

I found out that it's not good to talk about my troubles. Eighty percent of the people who hear them don't care and the other twenty percent are glad you're having them.

You can't go to Windows Update and get a patch for stupidity.

The audience likes their emotions to be touched. They want to laugh and cry and feel good.

Talk without effort is nothing.

It is much more easy for a Spanish person to love themselves than a Canadian person.

Waking up this morning, I smile. Twenty-four brand new hours are before me. I vow to live fully in each moment and to look at all beings with eyes of compassion.

The joy of creating is the truest joy.