It is always a strain when people are being killed. I don't think anybody has held this job who hasn't felt personally responsible for those being killed.

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!

From the beginning men used God to justify the unjustifiable.

The blue of the sky is one of the most special colors in the world, because the color is deep but see-through both at the same time.

I am my best work - a series of road maps, reports, recipes, doodles, and prayers from the front lines.

It is infamy to die, and not be missed.

You don't know what love is, until you've learned the meaning of the blues, until you've loved a love you've had to lose.

We will also be funding projects that empower women and children in Afghanistan and now and then give scholarships to Afghan students here in the Bay Area.

Opportunity often comes disguised in the form of misfortune, or temporary defeat.

We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more.

My books are friends that never fail me.

Enjoy now, another now is coming.