The family is the corner stone of our society.

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!

However beautifully you play the violin, you can always play the violin even more beautifully again.

You don't accept your weaknesses the same way that you love the weaknesses of another artist, because when they make mistakes they don't look like weaknesses.

Of children as of procreation -- the pleasure momentary, the posture ridiculous, the expense damnable

The national budget is not a safe-deposit box. It is a spray can.

The spiritual path - is simply the journey of living our lives. Everyone is on a spiritual path; most people just don't know it.

One cannot apologize for one's nature.

Things seem greater by imagination than they are in effect.

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

Waking a person unnecessarily should not be considered a capital crime. For a first offense, that is.

Asceticism may be a mere expression of organic hardihood, disgusted with too much ease.