The Great Society is a place where every child can find knowledge to enrich his mind and enlarge his talents.

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 friend is someone who knows all about you and still loves you.

The universe is made of stories, not of atoms.

Frustration... when our happiness or sadness looses control. The blissful intensity of sensations, the disappointing realisation that dissatisfaction is not enough.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

It's not good to be in a situation where people don't want to direct you or don't want to question something.

We may not be able to create or control all of the events that impact our lives but we can create and control our responses to everything that we experience.

I love comedy and I hope I never stop doing it.

If I don't have red, I use blue.

Agriculture is the process of turning eco-systems into people.

Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.