“This pleased Onyango, for to him knowledge was the source of all the white man's power, and he wanted to make sure that his son was as educated as any white man.”

“Four score 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. Now we are engaged in a great civil war, testing whether that nation or any nation so conceived and so dedicated can long endure. We are met on a great battlefield of that war. We have come to dedicate a portion of that field as a final resting-place for those who here gave their lives that that nation might live. It is altogether fitting and proper that we should do this. But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead who struggled here have consecrated it far above our poor power to add or detract. The world will little note nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here. 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. It is rather for us to be here dedicated to the great task remaining before us — that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion — that we here highly resolve that these dead shall not have died in vain, that this nation under God shall have a new birth of freedom, and that government of the people, by the people, for the people shall not perish from the earth.” 

“Your job is not to judge. Your job is not to figure out if someone deserves something. Your job is to lift the fallen, to restore the broken, and to heal the hurting.”

“Gurney says there’s no artistry in killing with the tip, that it should be done with the edge.”

“I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.”

“Pray and trust God, and He will show you what to do at the right time. He will show you because He is a God Who never fails His children (see Deut. 31:6, 8). He is a God of faithfulness, and He always comes through.”

“Why do we need to pray? Because the Christian life is a journey, and we need God’s strength and guidance along the way.”

“He that but looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart”

“I'd rather be an optimist and a fool than a pessimist and right.”

“If you're fighting moodiness and depression you don't want to hang around a bunch of other moody and depressed people.”

“People who bore one another should meet seldom; people who interest one another, often.”

“There are two kinds of people in this world: those who want to get things done and those who don’t want to make mistakes.”

“Although I have been prevented by outward circumstances from observing a strictly vegetarian diet, I have long been an adherent to the cause in principle. Besides agreeing with the aims of vegetarianism for aesthetic and moral reasons, it is my view that a vegetarian manner of living by its purely physical effect on the human temperament would most beneficially influence the lot of mankind.”

“Niente come tornare in un luogo rimasto immutato ci fa scoprire quanto siamo cambiati...”

“Our society has traded strength of character for makeovers that deceive.”