If you never quit, youll never fail.

About one month before he was killed, when asked by David Frost how his obituary should read: Something about the fact that I made some contribution to either my country, or those who were less well off. I think back to what Camus wrote about the fact that perhaps this world is a world in which children suffer, but we can lessen the number of suffering children, and if you do not do this, then who will do this? I'd like to feel that I'd done something to lessen that suffering.

What we need in the United States is not division; what we need in the United States is not hatred; what we need in the United States is not violence or lawlessness; but love and wisdom, and compassion toward one another, and a feeling of justice toward those who still suffer within our country, whether they be white or they be black.

Perhaps to some extent we have lost sight of the fact that LSD can be very, very helpful in our society if used properly.

Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

I am not one of those who think that coming in second or third is winning.