Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.
I remember my mother's prayers and they have always followed me. They have clung to me all my life.