The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.

For people who like that kind of thing, this is the kind of thing they like.

It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it.

Women are the only people I am afraid of who I never thought would hurt me

If I have to be typecast, I'd like it to be as Abraham Lincoln.

As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.