When all is said and done, the real citadel of strength of any community is in the hearts and minds and desires of those who dwell there.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles, the first of which is to be flexible at all times.

Life is not a static thing. The only people who do not change their minds are incompetents in asylums, and those in cemeteries.

Whatever the color of a man's skin, we are all mankind. So every denial of freedom, of equal opportunity for a livelihood, or for an education, diminishes me.

When I feel the heat, I see the light.

A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.

But the basic difficulty still remains: It is the expansion of Federal power, about which I wish to express my alarm. How easily we embrace such business.

The mind is no match with the heart in persuasion; constitutionality is no match with compassion.

We have been through this biennial convulsion four or five different times over the past 10 or 12 years, and now it appears that we are going through this quiet agony all over again.

We are becoming so accustomed to millions and billions of dollars that 'thousands' has almost passed out of the dictionary.

I have said, with respect to authorization bills, that I do not want the Congress or the country to commit fiscal suicide on the installment plan.

For the record, I don't worship the devil. I just hate religion.

I've learned... that everyone you meet deserves to be greeted with a smile.

Ron Syriac, a golf writer and friend, was quoted as saying, "Annika is no longer a female golfer. She's a golfer." That's truly all I ever aspired to be.

I've always been supportive of the right of Israel as a state, and I've always fought against anti-Semitism, even in my own community.

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

For instance, one of the costs of the war is that soldiers today get very seriously injured but stay alive, and we can keep them alive but at an enormous price.

What keeps me writing is that I can only know through writing. My major sense organ is apparently a pencil.

Every Messiah fails, the moment he tries to redeem himself.

Twitter is my happy place. I am not there to overthink 140 characters.

You have to be completely open to what people would tell you. You do not shape them; you do not force the materials into your ideas. You have to have all windows and doors open.