“If you have a mother-in-law with only one eye and she has it in the center of her forehead, don’t keep her in the living room.”

Evil acts of the past are never rectified by evil acts of the present.

As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

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.

A nation that fails to plan intelligently for the development and protection of its precious waters will be condemned to wither because of its shortsightedness. The hard lessons of history are clear, written on the deserted sands and ruins of once proud civilizations.

We can draw lessons from the past, but we cannot live in it.

It’s the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done.

John F. Kennedy was the victim of the hate that was a part of our country. It is a disease that occupies the minds of the few but brings danger to the many.

Our objective in South Vietnam has never been the annihilation of the enemy. It has been to bring about a recognition in Hanoi that its objective – taking over the South by force – could not be achieved.

You aren’t learning anything when you’re talking.

To sustain an environment suitable for man, we must fight on a thousand battlegrounds. Despite all of our wealth and knowledge, we cannot create a redwood forest, a wild river, or a gleaming seashore.

If government is to serve any purpose it is to do for others what they are unable to do for themselves.

The job, of course, will never be finished. For a nation, as for an individual, education is a perpetually unfinished journey, a continuing process of discovery.

In a thousand unseen ways we have drawn shape and strength from the land.

Never miss an opportunity to say a word of congratulation upon anyone’s achievement.

A good president does with executive power what Pablo Picasso did with paint. He takes bills into new and slightly discomfiting territory. He puts extra eyes on policies. He moves the mouth of the Supreme Court from where it should be to where it must be.

Heck by the time a man scratches his behind, clears his throat, and tells me how smart he is, we’ve already wasted fifteen minutes.

Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last to the North Pole.

The scar on my eye is a result of the doctor’s sewing up my face. It was 450 stitches and plastic surgery.

The true vision is not in your eyes.

It doesn’t cost anything to say hi when you pass someone else in the hallway, whereas, most corporations if you pass you avoid eye contact.

Sometimes the easiest way to appreciate ourselves is by looking through the eyes of someone who loves us.

Such alchemy your mystic eyes like a drug I’m addicted to your fiery kisses.

My eyes shut as the fire in my lungs reaches my throat.

I look at you and see your angel eyes, just like the devil electrifying me.