Books and ideas are the most effective weapons against intolerance and ignorance.

Yesterday is not ours to recover, but tomorrow is ours to win or lose.

Until justice is blind to color, until education is unaware of race, until opportunity is unconcerned with the color of men's skins, emancipation will be a proclamation but not a fact.

Lincoln was right about not fooling all the people all the time. But Republicans haven't given up trying.

Better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.

I have learned that only two things are necessary to keep one's wife happy. First, let her think she's having her own way. And second, let her have it.

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he's going to get sick on it.

There are no problems we cannot solve together, and very few that we can solve by ourselves.

Our numbers have increased in Vietnam because the aggression of others has increased in Vietnam. There is not, and there will not be, a mindless escalation.

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

Just like the Alamo, somebody damn well needed to go to their aid. Well, by God, I'm going to Viet Nam's aid!

For you not to waste or spend your life, you must first begin to see time and life correctly. You must first understand that time is life and life is time.

Self-pitying, self-righteous, self-important, all the selfs except self-confident, the quality that she always needed the most.

I miss you with the very edge of my skin.It winces in absence, a giant muscle contracting.

I am a Communist and my painting is Communist painting.

An angel of God never has wings.

Shamefully we now learn that Saddam's torture chambers reopened under new management, U.S. management.

Their reward for enduring the awful experience was the right to tell people about it.

Many people talk as if they have all the answers, whereas I know I don't. That's probably why no one listens to me.

An artist’s imagination is his greatest tool

All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.