A majority of Americans want redemption for racism - for our terrible, destructive racist past - and so see a vote for Obama as redemptive.

Love is something more stern and splendid than mere kindness. —C. S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

What sunshine is to flowers, smiles are to humanity. These are but trifles, to be sure; but scattered along life's pathway, the good they do is inconceivable.

Did I miss?" you asked. "You didn't exactly miss," said Pooh, "But you missed the balloon." "I'm so sorry," you said, and you fired again, and this time you hit the balloon and the air came slowly out, and Winnie-the-Pooh floated down to the ground.

You mean Piglet. The little fellow with the excited ears. That's Piglet.

Let us pray to remain in ignorance of the faults of those we like. Let us pray it as sincerely as we pray that they shall remain in ignorance of ours.

When I was young, I used to admire intelligent people; as I grow older, I admire kind people.

With malice towards none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right

The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend.

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.

I'm very much a people person.

All faults may be forgiven of him who has perfect candor.