“No man runs the race until he sees the dream.”

“The poor man is poor because he will not heed instruction.”

“The Spirit of God breathes inspiration, while the carnal mind breeds vanity.”

“Finances flow along the lines of relationships in the kingdom of God.”

“I think of inspiration as desire infused with spirit and topped with an almost reckless optimism.”

“I'm going to Boston to see my doctor. He's a very sick man.”

“After his failed political career, Lincoln often pondered the question of the purpose of the meaning of life. In 1850 [ten years before he was elected President], Lincoln told Herdon [his law partner] "How hard, oh how hard it is to die and leave one's country no better than if one had never lived.”