The most reliable way to predict the future is to create it.

I do the very best I can, I mean to keep going. If the end brings me out all right, then what is said against me won't matter. If I'm wrong, ten angels swearing I was right won't make a difference.

A man is about as happy as he makes up his mind to be.

Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.

I am not bound to win, but I am bound to be true. I am not bound to succeed, but I am bound to live up to the light I have. I must stand with anybody that stands right - stand with him while he is right and part with him when he goes wrong.

I am satisfied that when the Almighty wants me to do or not do any particular thing, He finds a way of letting me know it

Teach economy. That is one of the first and highest virtues. It begins with saving money.