The thing I would like to do most is to find somehow to bring peace to the world. It has eluded me.

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!

You wonder sometimes how our government puts on its pants in the morning.

One just has to look at the thing from a perspective that interests you personally.

He had a look of composed dissatisfaction, as if he understood life thoroughly.

Performers like Tommy Cooper, who are always getting things wrong, are much more endearing than comedians who are sassy and smart.

I'm really not into the educational aspect of performing. It's not in me.

Sunday is my favorite day.

They talk about Amen Corner but there's so much more to it than what meets the eye on this golf course.

The great rebalancing -- what does recovery mean today?

If your church conveys that spirit of condescension or judgment, it's likely not a place where grace is on tap.

I am, out of the ladies' company, like a fish out of the water.