“Aqueles que negam liberdade aos outros não merecem para si mesmos.”

“If any man at this day sincerely believes that a proper division of local from federal authority, or any part of the Constitution, forbids the Federal Government to control as to slavery in the federal territories, he is right to say so, and to enforce his position by all truthful evidence and fair argument which he can. But he has no right to mislead others, who have less access to history, and less leisure to study it, into the false belief that "our fathers who framed the Government under which we live" were of the same opinion - thus substituting falsehood and deception for truthful evidence and fair argument.”

“If frienship is your weakest point then you are the strongest person in the world.”

“Laughter can be used to sooth the mind and get rid of those awful thoughts.”

“I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.”

“Whatever you are, be a good one.”

“My father taught me to work, but not to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh -- anything but work.”