"I was raised in a really terrific, close family, and I've never needed to escape anything or to really let myself go by dancing on tables."

"I love to have my hair down; I love to have my hair full... there's something romantic about it."

"I always loved fashion."

"I feel shy when people are fussing on me."

"Actually, I'm happiest in Williams-Sonoma in New York. That's a wonderful cooking store."

"I love being at home and cooking and baking."

"I didn't have a boyfriend until I was 17. There were boys at school that I would find out later had a crush on me but I was too shy to talk to them."

"I came from a big family - two brothers and two sisters. So, there were always a ton of boys around and a ton of girls around. So, I grew up comfortable with both sexes."

"So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life."

“We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained, it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory will swell when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.” 

“Tact: the ability to describe others as they see themselves.” 

“I will prepare and some day my chance will come.” 

“Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they will just have to sit on their blisters.” 

“No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar” 

“Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.” 

“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.” 

“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.” 

“If you once forfeit the confidence of your fellow citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem. It is true that you may fool all of the people some of the time; you can even fool some of the people all of the time; but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. -Speech at Clinton, Illinois, September 8, 1854.” 

“I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice.” 

“All I have learned, I learned from books.” 

“Things may come to those who wait, but only the things left by those who hustle.” 

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

“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.” 

“I am in favor of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being.” 

“You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.” 

“I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.” 

“It's not me who can't keep a secret. It's the people I tell that can't.” 

“The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he made so many of them.” 

“In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.” 

“It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues.” 

“You have to do your own growing no matter how tall your grandfather was.” 

“You cannot help people permanently by doing for them, what they could and should do for themselves.” 

“If this is coffee, please bring me some tea; but if this is tea, please bring me some coffee.” 

“You can tell the greatness of a man by what makes him angry” 

“A house divided against itself cannot stand." I believe this government cannot endure, permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved — I do not expect the house to fall — but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing or all the other.” 

“I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts, and beer.” 

“It is difficult to make a man miserable while he feels worthy of himself and claims kindred to the great God who made him.” 

“I am not concerned that you have fallen -- I am concerned that you arise.” 

“The better part of one's life consists of his friendships.” 

“To ease another’s heartache is to forget one’s own.” 

“The probability that we may fail in the struggle ought not to deter us

from the support of a cause we believe to be just.” 

“I don't know who my grandfather was; I am much more concerned to know what his grandson will be.” 

“As a nation, we began by declaring that 'all men are created equal.' We now practically read it 'all men are created equal, except negroes.' When the Know-Nothings get control, it will read 'all men are created equal, except negroes, and foreigners, and Catholics.' When it comes to this I should prefer emigrating to some country where they make no pretense of loving liberty – to Russia, for instance, where despotism can be taken pure, and without the base alloy of hypocrisy.” 

“Achievement has no color” 

“Fourscore and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.” 

“When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.” 

“Be with a leader when he is right, stay with him when he is still right, but, leave him when he is wrong.” 

“I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end.” 

“No matter how much the cats fight, there always seem to be plenty of kittens. ”