"I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number."

"The worst thing you can do for those you love is the things they could and should do themselves."

"It is for us the living, rather, to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced."

"No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens."

"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."

"If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend."

"Every man loves two women;the one is the creation of his imagination and the other is not yet born."

"Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

"Nature is at work.. Character and destiny are her handiwork. She gives us love and hate, jealousy and reverence. All that is ours is the power to choose which impulse we shall follow."

"From the age of six, I have known that I was sexy. And let me tell you it has been hell, sheer hell, waiting to do something about it."

"Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title."

"'Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation' yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation."