What makes it immoral if you lose and not immoral if you win?

We do not have the God-given right to shape every nation in our image or as we choose.

Measure what is important, don't make important what you can measure

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

Never answer the question that is asked of you. Answer the question that you wish had been asked of you.

The war in Vietnam is going well and will succeed.

To this day we seem to act in the world as though we know what's right for everybody.

There are many ways to make the death rate increase.

At my age, 85, I'm at age where I can look back and derive some conclusions about my actions. My rule has been try to learn, try to understand what happened. Develop the lessons and pass them on.

Brains are like hearts - they go where they are appreciated.

It was a perfectly beautiful night, as fall nights are in Washington. I walked out of the president's Oval Office, and as I walked out, I thought I might never live to see another Saturday night.

If uncertain, it's best to pass by a possibly good dog than risk injury.

The difference between a human being ten years of age and one fifty years of age lies altogether in the matter of toys.

We create our buildings and then they create us. Likewise, we construct our circle of friends and our communities and then they construct us.

There is a role for growth and experiencing the world, and pushing the boundaries of that, and then there is a time to bring it within. All people are at different stages of that journey.

The tail of the comet slashed the dawn and in the red light of the rising sun, for a brief instant, it seemed as if the comet was bleeding across the sky.

I'm a libertarian. I think a lot of people are libertarians and are afraid to admit it - or don't know.

All forms of art are consciousness expanders, and I am convinced that they will take us further, and more consciously, than drugs.

The public is in need of experiences that are not just voyeuristic. Our society is in a mess of losing its spiritual centre.

The older theory was, marry an older man because they're more mature. But the new theory is men don't mature. Marry a younger one.

In some ways, America has grown up to be a masterpiece of self-concern.