"تنها چیزی که می‌توانم بگویم این است که هیچ انسانی زنده نیست که بیشتر از من بخواهد طرحی برای لغو برده داری پذیرفته شود"

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“Everything alters me, but nothing changes me.”

“Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer but the right answer”

“We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already”

“It is easy to love your friend, but sometimes the hardest lesson to learn is to love your enemy.”

“Build your opponent a golden bridge to retreat across.”

“A winner is a dreamer who never gives up”

“When someone leaves, it’s because someone else is about to arrive.”

“I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul”

“An eye for an eye will only make the whole world blind.”

“Life is too short, or too long, for me to allow myself the luxury of living it so badly.”

“The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.”