Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

When I feel the heat, I see the light.

When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings so that you shall come easily by what others have labored hard for.

She held up the pen and gave him a lazy grin. "It's a rose."He came close. "It's a pen." He tried to pluck it from her hand."You are seriously lacking in imagination.

I would never advise shooing away a good idea.

We don’t live in a free market society… markets are controlled by the major players who influence legislation to perpetuate their control...

Your money does not define your standard, your personality does.

If you go back to before mankind came out of the cave, there was hatred.

If you're eating or drinking something made from cow's milk, it's because a calf chained in a box somewhere isn't.

The full moon rises. The fog clings to the lowest branches of the spruce trees. The man steps out of the darkest corner of the forest and finds himself transformed into... A monkey? I think not.

If you aren't the chairman of Manchester United, Real Madrid or AC Milan, I'll get back to you later.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities?