He could follow someone’s mind around, and get where it was going before the other fellow knew where it was going.

People who sneer at a half a loaf of bread have never been hungry." George Reedy

The air of compromise is rarely appreciated fully by men of principle. C. Vann Woodward

With Johnson, you never quite knew if he was out to lift your heart or your wallet. Roy Wilkins

He is not the leader of great causes, but the broker of little ones.

The breath of life of the Senate is, of course, continuity,

their anxiety, justified or not, was genuine,

(LBJ) had what a journalist calls “a genius for analogy”— made the point unforgettably, in dialect, in the rhythmic cadences of a great storyteller. Master of the senate

Sam Rayburn on LBJ's recuperation from his heart attack: "It would kill him if he relaxed.

He took the trolley instead of the bus because it was smoother and he could read on it.

That speech (Daniel Webster's) “raised the idea of Union above contract or expediency and enshrined it in the American heart.

Sinful pleasure can ruin our appetite for the things of God.

I think that one can have luck if one tries to create an atmosphere of spontaneity.

Had you restrained your love, you would be free of sorrow. The greater the love, while one possesses it, the greater the sorrow when one is deprived of it.

To love women and never enjoy them, is as much to love wine and never taste it.

Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight

I've always thought Prince Charming in Cinderella was the most boring role; I'd rather be the Wicked Witch.

Life is an island. People come out of the sea, cross the island, and return to the sea. But this short life is long and beautiful. In getting to know nature man exalts the wonder and beauty of life.

Once we decide we have to do something, we can go miles ahead.

Its best to live as if it were the first and last day of my life.

The passions we cannot control are the ones that define us.