Life's unfairness is not irrevocable; we can help balance the scales for others, if not always for ourselves.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

That woman doesn't have the sense God gave a retarded flea.

One who has imagination without learning has wings without feet.

A garden was the primitive prison, till man with Promethean felicity and boldness, luckily sinned himself out of it.

You learn from mistakes, but Shakespeare is one big non mistake isn't he? He just got everything right really.

How wrong are those simpletons, of whom the world is full, who look more at... color than at the figures which show spirit and movement.

We've seen in the last half century an incredible shift. This is just an extraordinary time to be alive.

I was only kicking down the Christmas tree to get the star on top.

Either way, things are a lot better - either a lot better than they were or a lot better than they're going to be.

To be modern is to tear the soul out of every thing