You aren't learning anything when you're talking.

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!

That which is dreamed can never be lost, can never be undreamed.

The ink in your pen never reshapes your thoughts, you must replace the ink before the ink can be inked properly.

Some other faculty than the intellect is necessary for the apprehension of reality.

Mystic: a person who is puzzled before the obvious but who understands the non-existent.

France has been very good for me. It has given me a very worldly-cool attitude.

Happiness lies so far from man, but he must begin by daring to will it.

And there I was, 225 pounds, perpetually lost and confused, short legs, ape-like upper body, all chest, no neck, head too large, blurred eyes, hair uncombed, 6 feet of geek, waiting for her.

Old minds are like old horses; you must exercise them if you wish to keep them in working order.

Losing my mind From this hollow in my heart

Hey, baby, nobody suffers like the poor.