What counted was not the facts but the fears.

The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt.

When you choose the lesser of two evils, always remember that it is still an evil.

America is a passionate idea or it is nothing. America is a human brotherhood or it is chaos.

Either men will learn to live like brothers, or they will die like beasts.

A politician wouldn't dream of being allowed to call a columnist the things a columnist is allowed to call a politician

When you are seventeen you aren't really serious.

I am neither an optimist nor pessimist, but a possibilist.

A President is best judged by the enemies he makes when he has really hit his stride.

You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace.

The best thing about lying in bed late is that you learn to distinguish between first things and trivia, for whatever presses on you has to prove its importance before it makes you move.

Always let life be wild. Forever have life be interesting.

Love is an action you must repeat ceaselessly.

Sleep is underrated. Sleep!

In Washington I'm thought of as a conservative, but in Tennessee I'm thought of as a Bolshevik.

Thinking like others is ok for things that are not important to you.

The Constitution empowers the people to resolve our day's most contentious issues. When judges forget this basic truth, they do a disservice to our democracy and to our constitution.

I much prefer writing an original movie with the screen in mind to transferring a play to the screen.

I think I'm probably too close to the seventies to be able to analyse them (it?) effectively.

An adventure is never an adventure when it happens. An adventure is simply physical and emotional discomfort recollected in tranquility.

You try turning up in America without documents, without a visa, without a passport; you'll be treated as very, very much illegal.