"I was elected a Captain of Volunteers--a..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“It doesn't mater if you're a slow walker, so long as you don't walk backwards.”

“The only security a man can ever have is the ability to do a job uncommonly well.”

“There may sometimes be ungenerous attempts to keep a young man down; and they will succeed, too, if he allows his mind to be diverted from its true channel to brood over the attempted injury.”

“Success is a very hideous thing. Its false resemblance to merit deceives men.”

“Learning is the beginning of wealth. Searching and learning is where the miracle process all begins. The great breakthrough in your life comes when you realize it that you can learn anything you need to learn to accomplish any goal that you set for yourself. This means there are no limits on what you can be, have or do.”

“If it's a principle, it's a winner. If it's a tactic, it's a loser.”

“If happiness always depends on something expected in the future, we are chasing a will-o'-the-wisp that ever eludes our grasp, until the future, and ourselves, vanish into the abyss of death.”

“Merrily, merrily shall I live now,Under the blossom that hangs on the bough.”

“The sun looks down on nothing half so good as a household laughing together over a meal.”