The final conquest of poverty is within our grasp.

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!

The sun consumes even itself to give light to a dark world

And she is the readerwho browses the shelfand looks for new worldsbut finds herself.

He's the only person who's entered my world apart from me.

His looks are my weakness, his mind my undoing.

People are already p*ssed off at me because I'm athletic and beautiful; to be smart in addition to that... it's like, too much.

Good painter imitates nature, bad ones spews it up.

Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.

Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.

We know we are falling from grace, millennium.

The older we get, the fewer things seem worth waiting in line for.