I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.

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'll tell you what you want to hear. I mean, what I need to hear. I'll tell the truth.

Success is inevitable to anyone whose subconscious mind is programmed to perceive life as a journey of endless opportunities and possibilities.

Nothing is without meaning. What matters is you know that meaning or not.

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

Excuse my absolute freedom. I refuse to make a distinction between any of the moments of myself.

The experience is no longer traumatic; the response of most women to the experience is relief.

The preaching of Jesus Christ and him crucified on account of sinners is Gods desired way of being God.

Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

There are few punishments too severe for a popular novel writer.

Even if I get thrown out of Hollywood, I'll come back. It took me 14 years to get where I am. I'm going to hang in there.