Abraham Lincoln

Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt.

How many legs does a dog have, if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg.

When I do good, I feel good; when I do bad, I feel bad, and that is my religion.

Coaching your wife is like trying to baptize a cat.

Sailing round the world in a dirty gondola oh, to be back in the land of Coca-Cola!

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream, not only plan, but also believe.

I’m doing it because I choose it. And if it’s not working, I can make a change.

Spring is the time of plans and projects.

Only when you are kinder to yourself, you can be kinder to the world.

One side of unhealthy relating is if you are always pursuing or always retreating.

In Nevada, for a time, the lawyer, the editor, the banker, the chief desperado, the chief gambler, and the saloon-keeper occupied the same level of society, and it was the highest.

That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.

Am I ever gonna grow a thick skin? No.

I don’t want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I want to have lived the width of it as well.

Our life before moving to Washington was filled with simple joys. Saturdays at soccer games, Sundays at Grandma’s house. And a date night for Barack and me was either dinner or a movie, because as an exhausted mom, I couldn’t stay awake for both. He was still the guy who’d picked me up for our dates in a car that was so rusted out, I could actually see the pavement going by through a hole in the passenger-side door.

We must speak our minds openly, debate our disagreements honestly, but always pursue solidarity.

The more you know, the more you realise how much you don’t know — the less you know, the more you think you know.

Willpower is a myth. The problem with trying to use willpower to achieve and sustain a behavioral change is that it is fueled by emotion. And as we all know, our emotions are, at best, fickle. They come and go. When your emotions start running down — and they will — even your best-laid plans will fall flat.