After a long life I have come to the conclusion that when all the Establishment is united it is always wrong.

A man who trusts nobody is apt to be the kind of man nobody trusts.

Too many people live too much in the past. The past must be a springboard, not a sofa.

The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

Most of our people have never had it so good.

It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool, except a young fool. But the young fool has first to grow up to be an old fool to realize what a damn fool he was when he was a young fool.

I have learned that in all negotiations nothing matters except the will to reach agreement.

If you don't believe in God, all you have to believe in is decency. Decency is very good. Better decent than indecent. But I don't think it's enough.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

History is apt to judge harshly those who sacrifice tomorrow for today.

I'd like that translated, if I may.

God knows everything that happened in your life

For some there is no musicNo lightsNo fireNo untamed madness that breathes lifeThere is workAnguishFrustrationRageDespairA dullness that rings like wooden thunder

How could it be that you could love someone so much and keep it secret from yourself as you woke daily so far from home?

The problem is that Americans would like to be independent of the rest of the world ... Except the world ain't that way. Trying to be independent of the rest of the world is to commit suicide.

Circumstances don't make you, they reveal you .

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

I want people to be moved, to feel called to action. That's what I want to do.

A team is a fist-not five fingers.

If there's grass in the field, play ball!

If you want to see the acceptable face of capitalism, go out to an oil rig in the North Sea.