The best way to begin disarming is to begin-and the United States is ready to conclude firm agreements in these areas and to consider any other reasonable proposal.

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!

Given the opportunity of 'Earth-School' enrollment - some are humble enough to learn and grow, stubborn enough to fail and repeat, and wise enough to graduate and never return.

Fear echoes your self-defined limitations, not your actual ones. To change your self-image, you must face what scares you.

Look forward to be a learner. The leader comes along.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

Love is pointless. It’s the same sad sad story of with the same inevitable ending of miserable deterioration.

I don't want to say my mom is late on trends, but this morning she said, Have a shagadelic day, sweetheart.

To me, there's two kinds of music these days. There's ephemeral music, and there's music that has lasting power and depth.

I am so weak that I can hardly write, I cannot read my Bible, I cannot even pray, I can only lie still in God's arms like a little child, and trust.

Some men are like nails, very easily drawn; others however are more like rivets never drawn at all.

That loss is most discreditable which is caused by negligence.