Whoever won't fight when the President calls him, deserves to be kicked back in his hole and kept there.

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!

There's no such thing as a nonworking mother.

I thought: 'My education is driving a wedge between me and the people I love.' And then I wondered: 'What would happen if it were possible to increase a person's intelligence?'

What is the matter with these people, these people who won't stop fighting, won't stop hurting each other...?

Sustain a bright and joyful spirit.

But death is not freedom. For a moment, it can look like freedom. But then it's death. Anything. Something. Nothing.

There are various orders of beauty, causing men to make fools of themselves in various styles.

Outer beauty is inner beauty made visible, and it manifests itself in the light that flows in our eyes.

It is impossible for a man to be cheated by anyone but himself.

So yes, I hope to act in other people's movies, big and small, because that's how I make my living, really.

I am down with the latest trends. And everyone knows, the thing on the streets is vampires. So I have been biting people on the neck.