Unlike some politicians, I can admit to a mistake.

I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

The power of an air force is terrific when there is nothing to oppose it.

I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.

Let each know that for each the body, the mind and the soul have been forced to fulfill themselves.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. 

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.

There is a wisdom of the head, and a wisdom of the heart.

I look only to the good qualities of men. Not being faultless myself, I won't presume to probe into the faults of others. 

Indeed, we're strongest when the face of America isn't only a soldier carrying a gun but also a diplomat negotiating peace, a Peace Corps volunteer bringing clean water to a village, or a relief worker stepping off a cargo plane as floodwaters rise.

The ballot is stronger than the bullet.

As an attorney, I could be rather flamboyant in court. I did not act as though I were a black man in a white man's court, but as if everyone else - white and black - was a guest in my court. When trying a case, I often made sweeping gestures and used high-flown language.