Abraham Lincoln

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man’s character, give him power.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

I don’t believe in geniuses, I believe in hard work.

If you foul up, tell the President and correct it fast. Delay only compounds mistakes.

An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it.

Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.

Be bad, but at least don’t be a liar, a deceiver!

If I were required to guess off-hand, and without collusion with higher minds, what is the bottom cause of the amazing material and intellectual advancement of the last fifty years, I should guess that it was the modern-born and previously non-existent disposition on the part of men to believe that a new idea can have value.

A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.

Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes.

Scream in silence. Dance in stillness.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of us left.

The problem is that for women, the average time is just over 14 minutes… men are left with about 12 minutes during which time they need to think of something to do!

Well, as a kid I did not get Shakespeare. I just never understood it.

Things that seemed simple and superfluous had some meaning, maybe it wasn’t a great meaning, it didn’t shake the world…

We Americans… bear the ark of liberties of the world.

Instead of being ashamed of what you’ve been through, be proud of what you have overcome!