However, it has long been said that "my enemy's enemy is my friend.

Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.

Of all the weapons in the world, love is the most dangerous.

America is thataway, Mr. Lincoln," laughed Davis, pointing north. "You're in Mississippi now.

I wrote one terrible manuscript after another for a decade and I guess they gradually got a little less terrible. But there were many, many unpublished short stories, abandoned screenplays and novels... a Library of Congress worth of awful literature.

I leave you, hoping that the lamp of liberty will burn in your bosoms until there shall no longer be a doubt that all mean are created free and equal.

It was a sort of peace I have rarely enjoyed since. As if we were the only two souls on earth—all of nature ours to enjoy. I wondered why a creator who had dreamt such beauty would have slandered it with such evil. Such grief. Why He had not been content to leave it unspoilt. I still wonder.