As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

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!

A leader’s skills take him to people, but his character brings people to him.

Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.

Not all writers are crazy. Only the ones who are serious enough about their craft.

Awards are not the only markers of success I don't judge myself just based on them. I believe that each cinema-goer has his own mental trophies.

If the time comes and your dream doesn't seem worth it, then maybe it was the wrong dream.

A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come.

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

Spiritual balance is how you deal with opposition, outside of yourself and within.

If our hopes of building a better and safer world are to become more than wishful thinking, we will need the engagement of volunteers more than ever.

Create each day anew by clothing yourself with heaven and earth, bathing yourself with wisdom and love, and placing yourself in the heart of Mother Nature.