“Contrary to his infallibly "honest" image, Abe wasn't above lying so long as it served a noble purpose.”
“I felt bad for lying to John, who was about as honest as Abe Lincoln on sodium Pentothal.”
“Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!”
“The wicked make all God's good works serve evil purposes but the person of good will, to the contrary, makes the evil doings of the wicked serve good purposes.”
“Abed, the walls pressed close and the ceiling hung heavy above him; abed, the room was his cell and Winterfell his prison. Yet outside his windows, the wide world still called. - Bran”
“Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.”