To hell with facts! We need stories.

The truth doesn't have to do with cruelty, the truth has to do with mercy.

You don't lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.

Your trouble is, you keep trying to unscrew the unscrutable.

Mr. Bibbit, you might warn this Mr. Harding that I'm so crazy I admit to voting for Eisenhower. Bibbit! You tell Mr. McMurphy I'm so crazy I voted for Eisenhower twice! And you tell Mr. Harding right back — he puts both hands on the table and leans down, his voice getting low — that I'm so crazy I plan to vote for Eisenhower again this November.

You can't blame the President for the state of the country, it's always the poets' fault. You can't expect politicians to come up with a vision, they don't have it in them. Poets have to come up with the vision and they have to turn it on so it sparks and catches hold.

Now, you’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus.