Folks are usually about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
The best way to predict your future is to create it.
In the end, it's not the years in your life that count; it's the life in your years.
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis.
My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Give me six hours to chop down a tree, and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
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.
Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what we think of it; the tree is the real thing.
The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.
The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just.
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
I don't think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.
Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.
The ballot is stronger than the bullet.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
I would rather be a little nobody, than to be an evil somebody.
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.
The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man who'll get me a book I ain't read.
Those who look for the bad in people will surely find it.
A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have.
You can fool all the people some of the time, and some of the people all the time, but you cannot fool all the people all the time.
If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?
I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.
I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.