We live in a world that has narrowed into a neighborhood before it has broadened into 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!

If you cannot inspire a woman with love of you, fill her above the brim with love of herself ~ all that runs over will be yours.

I transform fiction into memory.

How one lives during limited time on earth's school is perhaps how one may dwell in the space of eternity.

If you were born really ugly like me, have no fear. There's steps you can take to be good-looking. Kind of.

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

Romance focuses on emotions and on relationships, both of which are fundamentally important to women.

Feeling comes before reflection.

If we could view Muhammad as we do any other important historical figure we would surely consider him to be one of the greatest geniuses the world has known.

I am a partisan and artisan of Europe. But I draw the lessons of my experience in government.

Simply cutting the taxes for America's wealthiest families is clearly not creating the needed new jobs, and that strategy is unlikely to succeed in the future.