“You have to understand you cannot have faith and fear at the same time; you can only have one or the other.”

“As our circle of knowledge expands, so does the circumference of darkness surrounding it.”

“Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.”

“Each day we are becoming a creature of splendid glory or one of unthinkable horror.”

“One of the quickest ways to gain credibility with an individual, a group, or an audience is to borrow it from someone who already has credibility with them.”

“Courage is not the absence of fear — it s inspiring others to move beyond it.”

“Not in order to justify, but simply in order to explain my lack of consistency, I say: Look at my present life and then at my former life, and you will see that I do attempt to carry them out. It is true that I have not fulfilled one thousandth part of them [Christian precepts], and I am ashamed of this, but I have failed to fulfill them not because I did not wish to, but because I was unable to. Teach me how to escape from the net of temptations that surrounds me, help me and I will fulfill them; even without help I wish and hope to fulfill them.

“Love is a lesson worth learning.” 

“The success you are enjoying today is the result of the price you have paid in the past.”

“ACADEMIC CHAIRS ARE MANY, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.”

“Tears shed for self are tears of weakness, but tears shed for others are a sign of strength.”

“To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer.”

“You've no idea how good an old joke sounds when you take it out again after a rest of five or six hundred years.”

“A dream worth pursuing is a picture and blueprint of a person's purpose and potential”

“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.”