The future holds little hope for any government where the present holds no hope for the people.

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!

He wanted to tell the baby that Paris was like a poem in stone.

Our attitude is that we want to cross over. You can't go on making records just for your own hometown.

Israel is not an aviary.

Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.

It's hard to dance with a devil on your back, So shake him off...

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

I'm religiously celibate except in LA, NOLA, FLA, because there is certainly no God in any of those places. So unless you live in one of those places I'm really no good to you.

I was blessed with good genetics, but my essence is very happy and warm and I don’t take my job too seriously. I’m not saving lives here.

You have to remind casting directors out here that you don't just do one thing. There's a lot of people who do just one thing.

Nothing shows our weakness more than to be so sharp-sighted at spying other men's faults, and so purblind about our own.