I'm willin' for any solution - religious, political. I'm not going to keep offerin' to negotiate so much because they turn us down each time. It indicates a weakness on our part.

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!

Who can go beyond the mind? The one who has conquered the mind.

Know what you want to accomplish in life, identify your purpose, and align it with your passion.

Yes, I am white now, ' said Gandalf. 'Indeed I am Saruman, one might almost say, Saruman as he should have been.

Exercise should be regarded as tribute to the heart.

All philosophies are mental fabrications. There has never been a single doctrine by which one could enter the true essence of things.

He who bears in his heart a cathedral to be built is already victorious. He who seeks to become sexton of a finished cathedral is already defeated.

Compromise now, because you'll have to later, anyway, only then you'll have gone through things you'll wish you hadn't.

It's never too late to turn things around. You are the only obstacle.

If you’re worrying about the past, you’ve got a good chance of screwing up the future.

All great poets have been men of great knowledge.