The world has narrowed to a neighbourhood before it has broadened to a brotherhood.

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!

I am dedicated to the preservation of my marriage's unity.

I learned that forgiveness isn't an instant thing

And so the bird was the end of the man, and the man was the beginning of the bird.

All men seek one goal: success or happiness.

An actor is at his best a kind of unfrocked priest who, for an hour or two, can call on heaven and hell to mesmerize a group of innocents.

An ounce of courage will go farther with women than a pound of timidity.

The deeper interior you have the more you have in your llibrary.

The [Edward] Snowden disclosures created this perception that people's privacy was being put at significant risk.

When authors who write literary fiction begin to write screenplays, everybody assumes that's the end. Here's another who's never going to write well again.

If you hide behind the things you don’t want to talk about then you’re going to feel insecure in all aspects of your life.