I think the human race needs to think about killing. How much evil must we do to do good?

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.

In urge to modern don't slip much that you can't find yourself someday & die in confusion or end up in doing rubbish. Fly but by realizing your root.

It's not what you know

There are two ways of looking at the talking filibuster. My way is as a form of unanimous consent.

People are moved by my story, but they're only moved by my story because of what I do on the court.

If there's no craft there, then once the looks go, there goes your career.

Many very strong fathers have turned out ineffectual sons by not allowing them to grow as men.

Soccer was invented by man but perfected by women.

Fine words are traded. Noble deeds gain respect. But people who are not good, why abandon them?

Dancing is a spiritual exercise in a physical form.

It's actually a very unpleasant experience to read a Nature paper, or to read a Science paper.