"Some single mind must be master, else..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln

“President Lincoln was once criticized for his attitude toward his enemies. "Why do you try to make friends of them?" asked an associate. "You should try to destroy them." "Am I not destroying my enemies," Lincoln gently replied, "when I make them my friends?"”

“Tis better people think you a fool, then open your mouth and erase all doubt.”

“While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.”

“It is a maxim, that those, to whom everybody allows the second place, have an undoubted title to the first.”

“In rivers and bad governments the lightest things swim at top.”

“A bossy woman is someone to search out and celebrate. A bossy woman is someone who cares and commits and is a natural leader.”

“My formula for happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line, a goal.”

“He saw before him two roads, both equally straight ; but he saw two; and that terrified him — him, who had never in his life known but one straight line. And, bitter anguish, these two roads were contradictory.”

“Make every decision based on your last years of life instead of your next 10.”