Peace does not come just because we wish for it. Peace must be fought for. It must be built stone by stone.

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!

Who gave you a gun?''The army.''Why?''That's what the army does, Simon.

Everyone always believes him to be the person they think he is, which in truth is no one

If I died, I’d expect my guy to mourn me forever, and if he tried to hook up with someone else, I’d haunt him till he ended up in a crazy house. Then I’d haunt the girl.

in order to isolate what was possible, you had to eliminate everything that was impossible

It was in the black mirror of anarchism that surrealism first recognised itself.

I think people are complacent about sound, because we're so limited by the textures and timbres we hear in music, but in our everyday life we hear the most incredible things.

Finally, I decided that the proper strategy was to stare back. Boys do not have a monopoly on the Staring Business.

Travel light. She extended her arms to embrace her house, maybe the whole world.

My approach is that you have to earn the respect of people you work with.

I suppose one gets to know men quickest by the things they take for granted.