Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?
America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.
My Best Friend is a person who will give me a book I have not read.
And in the end it is not the years in your life that count, it's the life in your years.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
I'm a success today because I had a friend who believed in me and I didn't have the heart to let him down.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren't very new after all.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
Those who deny freedom to others, deserve it not for themselves
We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses.
Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.
I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
There are no bad pictures; that's just how your face looks sometimes.
I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how a man could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
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 what light I have.
All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
I would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.
Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can not fool all of the people all of the time.
I have been driven many times upon my knees by the overwhelming conviction that I had no where else to go. My own wisdom and that of all about me seemed insufficient for that day.
No man is poor who has a Godly mother.
