New book on Malcolm X says we don't know how he was killed. Want to bring in the FBI. Maybe they were in already.

Liberals feel unworthy of their possessions. Conservatives feel they deserve everything they've stolen.

My life needs editing.

People tell me there are a lot of guys like me, which doesn't explain why I'm lonely.

I've arranged with my executor to be buried in Chicago. Because when I die, I want to still remain active politically.

When Obama ran, he said, We can change the world! The world: can you change it back?!

There's a danger our fiscal bankruptcy might overtake our moral bankruptcy.

A conservative is someone who believes in reform. But not now.

Remember that no matter how selfish, how cruel, how unfeeling you have been today, every time you take a breath, you make a flower happy.

The fact is that you can't have a good relationship with a girl who hasn't settled things with her father.

One thing about being narrow-minded: you'll never be lonely.

Positive thinking does light out the darkness of one's mind

It's one of those dumb days where nothing's really wrong but nothing's really right either and the sky can't even choose to be white or gray.

It is an anomaly that information, the one thing most necessary to our survival as choosers of our own way, should be a commodity subject to the same merchandising rules as chewing gum.

Ordinarily, everything we do is in our self-interest. Everything.

though pleasure may be purchasable, happiness cannot be bought for a price.

We have all of us the two natures - the brother and the sister! Not one of us is quite woman - not one of us is all man!

I have spent most of my life worrying about things that have never happened.

Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action.

Our own life has to be our message.

Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells.