I learnt more about politics during one South Dakota dust storm than in seven years at the university.

The greatest gift of life is friendship, and I have received it.

Today we know that World War II began not in 1939 or 1941 but in the 1920's and 1930's when those who should have known better persuaded themselves that they were not their brother's keeper.

The difference between hearsay and prophecy is often one of sequence. Hearsay often turns out to have been prophecy.

A politician never forgets the precarious nature of elective life. We have never established a practice of tenure in public office.

The time has arrived in America for the Democratic Party to get out of the shadows of states rights and walk forthrightly into the bright sunshine of human rights

The moral test of a society is how that society treats those who are in the dawn of life: the children; ... the elderly.

I learned more about the economy from one South Dakota dust storm that I did in all my years of college.

My favorite sandwich is peanut butter, baloney, cheddar cheese, lettuce, and mayonnaise on toasted bread with catsup on the side.

Compassion is not weakness, and concern for the unfortunate is not socialism.

Freedom is hammered out on the anvil of discussion, dissent, and debate.

The writers against religion whilst they oppose every system are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

'Age' is the acceptance of a term of years. But maturity is the glory of years.

I hate and love. And why, perhaps you’ll ask. I don’t know: but I feel, and I’m tormented.

Some people are nobody's enemies but their own

Make hast to an ill way that you may get out of it.

The world, as it is now, wants to die, wants to perish — and it will.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

Don't sleep in the subway, darling.

I will not be taking a paternity test, ever!