Abraham Lincoln

Always bear in mind that YOUR OWN RESOLUTION to succeed is more important than any one thing.

I feel the need of reading.  It is a loss to a man not to have grown up among books...  Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.

Most folks are as happy as they make their minds up to be.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

Character is like a tree and reputation is like a shadow, the shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.

People are just about as happy as they make up their minds to be.

Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues

If you look for the bad in (hu)mankind expecting to find it, you surely will.