It will help at every state along the road to learning. For the pre-school years we will help needy children become aware of the excitement of learning.

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!

How I look to you is the reflection of how you look at me.

Time gives our lives numerous opportunities demarcated into moments that allow us to connect the dots while looking back.

I believe I went through a divorce. My relationship with Ellen is no less significant as a marriage than my relationship to Coley.

Sometimes I have a feeling that I just can't get rid of. Sometimes there's an experience that I want to write about that I have to get off my chest. Sometimes there are some words that appeal to you.

There is safety in numbers.

Which of us has not been stunned by the beauty of an animal's skin or its flexibility in motion?

You offer a sincere compliment on a great mustache and suddenly she's not your friend.

The only person that I'm really feeling - because she has an identity of her own, even though she has listened to Mary J. Blige - is Jill Scott.

If I had found the words I was looking for, I would not have read so much.

I could be a dray man delivering the beer, maybe. If they could wangle some cockney in, that would be great.