We grow through our dreams. All great men and women are dreamers. Some, however, allow their dreams to die. You should nurse your dreams and protect them through bad times and tough times to the sunshine and light which always come.

I am sorry for men who do not read the Bible every day. I wonder why they deprive themselves of the strength and pleasure.

The Civil War created in this country what had never existed before - a national consciousness. It was not the salvation of the Union; it was the rebirth of the Union.

It's harder for a leader to be born in a palace than to be born in a cabin.

If you lose your wealth, you have lost nothing; if you lose your health, you have lost something; but if you lose your character, you have lost everything.

Benevolence does not consist in those who are prosperous pitying and helping those who are not. It consists in fellow feeling that puts you upon actually the same level with the fellow who suffers.

A presidential campaign may easily degenerate into a mere personal contest, and so lose its real dignity. There is no indispensable man.