The most pathetic person in the world is someone who has sight, but has no vision.

Keep your mind off the things you don’t want by keeping it on the things you do want.

Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man.

There is nothing in the world that empowers a human being to overcome external difficulties or internal hardships so much as the awareness that one has a task in life.

It matters not what goal you seek It's secret here reposes; You've got to dig from week to week To get Results and Roses.

The same power that rose Christ from the dead, is living inside of you.

The heights by great men reached and kept Where not attained by sudden flight, But they, while their companions slept, Were toiling upward in the night.

Dying is nothing. What is terrible is not to live.

The change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed.

But the bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, glory and danger alike, and yet notwithstanding go out to meet it.

Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.

The day will soon come when I will show the world that the transmission of power and speech without the aid of any wires is possible.