“Your days are short here; this is the last of your springs.”

the great mountains, and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, an inner light in which freedom lives and in which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.

Great or small–to have weight, to have a vote, to be attended to, to be a part of the twentieth century.

The boldness to face them, face them square.

You can tell the size of a man by the size of the thing that makes him mad.

Change is inevitable, change for the better is a full-time job.

We must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.

Be solved if we have the will, the courage

There is…a spiritual hunger in the world today and it cannot be satisfied..

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.

The time to stop a revolution is at the beginning, not the end.

And when we lose faith in the system

So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.

Communism is the corruption of a dream of justice.

A hungry man is not a free man.

Someone asked me…how it felt and I was reminded of a story that a fellow-townsman of ours used to tell–Abraham Lincoln.

I used to think I couldn’t go a day without your smile. Without telling you things and hearing your voice back.

Television is 15 hour days. Movies are 18 hour days. And it’s 18 hours of doing not a thing.

Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap but by the seeds that you plant.

My wife’s jealousy is getting ridiculous. The other day she looked at my calendar and wanted to know who May was.

I could do no wrong in my mother’s eyes from the day I was born. My fans bought her a very nice house in San Antonio, and she has a great life.

For me, one of the toughest things about Valentine’s Day is that it gets geared up as the day to profess your love. See, T-E-S-T – that’s a bad word that doesn’t go with L-O-V-E.

I had plenty of pimples as a kid. One day I fell asleep in the library. When I woke up, a blind man was reading my face.

Every day you spend drifting away from your goals is a waste not only of that day, but also of the additional day it takes to regain lost ground.