Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

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!

There are some lessons you can never find in a classroom, hence you need to learn from every person and every situation that you encounter.

Gambling: The sure way of getting nothing for something.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

I think the best things happen when you just let go and see what comes in. I find that that's always the most satisfying.

Horror, for me, is not defined by the thing that provokes ones fear, but the human being who has contact with it.

Is it a bad sign when someone asks you about the person your dating and a tear falls from your eye as you leap into oncoming traffic?

I don't know the difference between working and not working.

The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

When a poor person dies I want then to die in the arms of somebody who loves them. I want them to be able to look for the last time into the eyes of somebody who cares for them

Our senses, our appetite, and our passions are our lawful and faithful guides in things that relate solely to this life.