“The very essence of all power to influence lies in getting the other person to participate.” Influence is an invitation anyone can make to another person.”

“Let us realize the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends toward justice.”

“Before you point fingers at someone, clean them well. You better remove that log on your lens before you can see the speck on someone's own afar!”

“Freedom, the first-born of science.”

“I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn.”

“The Constitution of most of our states (and of the United States) assert that all power is inherent in the people; that they may exercise it by themselves; that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed.”

“Malign? I praise him. Death and deceit are our only hopes now. I just do not fool myself about Thufir’s methods.”

“A little muzhik was working on the railroad, mumbling in his beard.

“Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you're making.”

“Scientific discoveries (not theories) are found more and more to fit into the record God has given us in His Word.”

“Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us.”

“The greater our knowledge increases the greater our ignorance unfolds.”

“Author Kenneth Blanchard says, “There’s a difference between interest and commitment. When you’re interested in doing something, you do it only when it’s convenient. When you’re committed to something, you accept no excuses, only results.” That’s what leaders do. They commit and follow through.” 

“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.” 

“I haven't failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that don't work.”