Will it not be wise to allow the friendship between nations to rest upon deep and permanent things? Irritations of the cuticle must not be confounded with heart failure.

I pity the man who wants a coat so cheap that the man or woman who produces the cloth will starve in the process.

Great lives never go out; they go on.

Prayer steadies one when he is walking in slippery places - even if things asked for are not given.

The bud of victory is always in the truth.

We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

I am thorough believer in the American test of character. He will not build high who does not build for himself.

I'd rather have a bullet inside of me than to be living in constant dread of one.

The disfranchisement of a single legal elector by fraud or intimidation is a crime too grave to be regarded lightly.

That one flag encircles us with its folds today, the unrivaled object of our loyal love.

Lincoln had faith in time, and time has justified his faith.

A father is the template of a man Nature gives a girl

I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so you always remember where you came from.

You play ball against yourself; your opponent is your potential.

It's no wonder human beings are so narcissistic. The way our ears are constructed, we can hear only what is right next to us or else the internal monologue inside.

The failure of political leaders to help uplift the poor will be judged a moral failure.

That is the way of youth and life in general: that we do not understand the strategy until after the campaign is over.

Id like to be in anything that tells a good story and has an interesting character.

I'm always very excited by something that's a curveball or from left field.

I always wanted to be a father and thought it would be great, but it just took the right woman and the right time to make it all happen.

In the deep shadow of the porch A slender bind-weed springs, And climbs, like airy acrobat, The trellises, and swings And dances in the golden sun In fairy loops and rings.