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With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation's wounds.

Much talking is the cause of danger. Silence is the means of avoiding misfortune. The talkative parrot is shut up in a cage. Other birds, without speech, fly freely about.

I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God. It doesn't comfort man. On the contrary, it encourages him in his folly, it transports him to the supreme regions where he is master of his own destiny.

There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.

Zombies, what are you going to do with them? Just keep chopping them up, shooting at them, shooting at them.

The most common way people give up their power is by thinking they don't have any.

I got a job when I was 15 because my allowance was about $20 a week which in New York was impossible. So I used to waitress across the street from where I grew up.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

The last 10 years I have had to bulk up for roles and I'm naturally skinny, so I have eaten and killed so many chickens! I wouldn't even want to count. I need to balance that out.

Life is like the ocean, it goes up and down.

One thing about a skater: they never quit. So a skater, to sum it up, is awesome.

I love creepy old dudes. I love that they have so much self-confidence, despite having no evidence whatsoever to back it up.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened.

Every sport evolves. Every sport gets bigger and more athletic, and you have to keep up.

God can be realized through all paths. All religions are true. The important thing is to reach the roof. You can reach it by stone stairs or by wooden stairs or by bamboo steps or by a rope. You can also climb up by a bamboo pole.

A competitor will find a way to win. Competitors take bad breaks and use them to drive themselves just that much harder. Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a matter of pride.

I am not in this world to live up to other people's expectations, nor do I feel that the world must live up to mine.

In spite of everything I still believe that people are really good at heart. I simply can't build up my hopes on a foundation consisting of confusion, misery and death.

The artists I look up to are the ones who push their own limits.

Dig within. Within is the wellspring of Good; and it is always ready to bubble up, if you just dig.

Keeping the Union together, freeing slaves and being assassinated all added up to creating 'Lincoln the myth.' He overcame a lot of his own prejudices and became what many would consider the first black man's president.

Those issues are biblical issues: to care for the sick, to feed the hungry, to stand up for the oppressed. I contend that if the evangelical community became more biblical, everything would change.

We had training camp for a week, and we used the actual military drills of that period. We didn't have to work out much after hours, because going up and down hills all day was a good workout in itself.

I was brought up Roman Catholic. I'm not even baptized.

I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.

If you can't do it, give up!

Don't be afraid to fail. Don't waste energy trying to cover up failure. Learn from your failures and go on to the next challenge. It's OK to fail. If you're not failing, you're not growing.