I’m a slow walker, but I never walk back.

There are no bad pictures; that’s just how your face looks sometimes.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

“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.” 

“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” 

“I am a slow walker, but I never walk back.” 

“Whenever I hear anyone arguing for slavery, I feel a strong impulse to see it tried on him personally.” 

“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.” 

“Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.” 

“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.” 

“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.” 

“Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.” 

“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 would rather be a little nobody, then to be a evil somebody.” 

“All that I am or ever hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.” 

“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.” 

“Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.” 

“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.” 

“No man is poor who has a Godly mother.” 

“The best way to predict your future is to create it.” 

“I laugh because I must not cry, that is all, that is all. ” 

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” 

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” 

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.” 

“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” 

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar” 

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” 

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” 

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.” 

“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.” 

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” 

“All I have learned, I learned from books.” 

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” 

“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.” 

“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.” 

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.” 

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” 

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.”