Abraham Lincoln

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

How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

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

Certain flaws are necessary for the whole. It would seem strange if old friends lacked certain quirks.

Everything has its limit – iron ore cannot be educated into gold.

These are our neighbours, our co-workers, friends’ children… the problem is closer than you think, but so is the solution.

I always live in some kind of anticipation of something good happening.

I have dined with kings, I’ve been offered wings. And I’ve never been too impressed.

This is the time. This is the place. This is the vastness. Right here is paradise. Always. Always.

We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

Four women have helped me: mother, sister, mother-in-law and wife.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, then all possibility of life is destroyed.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

What I have never been afraid of is to be a little silly, and you can engage people that way!

Truth over Harmony.

Freedom of speech does not protect you from the consequences of saying stupid shit

Stupidity is the deliberate cultivation of ignorance.

The sun shines and warms and lights us and we have no curiosity to know why this is so; but we ask the reason of all evil, of pain, and hunger, and mosquitoes and silly people.