Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.

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!

I believe everyone has a soul mate that they can spend the rest of their life together.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

Dearest TV media and vans outside my home, please do not stress and work so hard.

Observe Everything. Communicate Well. Draw, Draw, Draw.

People die, but books never die.

We didn't sleep last week - we literally didn't sleep - because we've been so busy with the book.

When I go out there, I have no pity on my brother. I am out there to win.

Without doubt, the most common weakness of all human beings is the habit of leaving their minds open to the negative influence of other people.

What you fear most will happen to you - that is the law.

You need someone to see what you've done, to read it and to understand it and to appreciate what's gone into it.