The best fertilizer for a piece of land is the footprints of its owner.

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 living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

Every single person that spent a few bucks to buy a book that I wrote deserves a big thank you from my whole family.

We can sometimes waste years of our lives waiting to be chosen. But that is a false premise. You are already chosen!

Admittedly, it is really our duty, as artists, to hold up a mirror to our own era; but, on the other hand, these works have lives of their own, and they're still alive today.

And that's not something I'm willing to support, it's not something I'm willing to build and it's not something I'm willing to live under.

Life is like a school; one can learn, one can graduate, one can skip a grade or stay behind.

A civilization is not destroyed by wicked people; it is not necessary that people be wicked but only that they be spineless.

I am a person of faith. I'm certainly not an atheist or an agnostic and I see some divine force somewhere.

A mediocre season for Nelson Piquet as he is now known and always has been.