After long experience of politics, I have never found that there is any inhibition caused by ignorance as regards criticism.

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.

I think here I will leave you. It has come to seemthere is no perfect ending.Indeed, there are infinite endings.Or perhaps, once one begins, there are only endings.

Against the disease of writing one must take special precautions, since it is a dangerous and contagious disease.

And if I have the gift of prophesy, all-wisdom and great faith but without love, I am nothing.

Revolutions usually begin as replacements for older certainties, and not as pristine discoveries in uncharted terrain.

So much history can be lost if no one tells the story -- so that's what I do. I tell the stories. This is my way of fighting for social change.

There can be no justification for choosing any part of that which one knows to be evil.

I have my own biography of Gram Parsons - I don't want to be part of somebody else's.

It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.

The world at large doesn't always make sense to me, and there are safe havens. Linda Manz in 'Out of the Blue' is one of them.

There is only one problem on which all my existence, my peace, my happiness depend: to discover myself in discovering God. If I find Him I will find myself and if I find my true self I will find Him.