It is the excitement of becoming - always becoming, trying, probing, falling, resting, and trying again- but always trying and always gaining

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!

Whatever you do in this life, take time to sit quietly and let the world tell you what it needs from you. Take a moment to honestly understand what your gifts are-you have them.

Oh, it were better to be a poor fisherman than to meddle with the government of men.

Well, I like empowering my clients.

If you want to empower anyone else in your life, you need to start living the most empowered version of yourself first!

I'm happier than I would have been with the Beatles.

Stealing is OK as long as it's done well.

It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

The attempt to remove evil from the world by killing a thousand evil - doers, only adds to the evil in the world.

Rome wasn't built in a day. And neither was your body.

Use your youth so that you may have comfort to remember it when it has forsaken you, and not sigh and grieve at the account thereof.