Every child must be encouraged to get as much education as he has the ability to take. We want this not only for his sake - but for the nation's sake.

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!

I looked at Micah, who shrugged. I looked at Rafael, who shook his head. Nice that none of us knew why he was undressing.

Thou shalt wear trousers, but they shall fall half down to teach humility over arrogance.

You're going to make it, you'll be ok, miracles happen every day.

An idle mind is not a devil's workshop but a wanderlust

When I got out of the army, I had the G.I. Bill. Since I had no high school education or anything like that, I came to NYU, and they took a chance on me and let me in.

Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.

If there was a story about boys playing punk I don't think I would've made it, because it would just be the same, it wouldn't be interesting enough.

Never, ever allow yourself to feel. Feelings kill.

Things bloosom in their time. They bud and bloom, blossom and fade. Everything in its time.

The lady was old, the lady was ill. It didn't matter what the lady believed.