"He has the right to criticize who has the heart to help."

"Do I not destroy my enemies when I make them my friends?"

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

"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."

"Most folks are about as happy as they make up their minds to be."

"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 I didn't have my films as an outlet for all the different sides of me, I would probably be locked up."

"A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body."

"A successful person is one who can lay a firm foundation with the bricks that others throw at him."

"The most savage controversies are those about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way."

"The higher a man gets, the smaller he seems to those who cannot fly."

"Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled."