"We have talked long enough in this country about equal rights. It is time now to write the next chapter - and to write it in the books of law."

"If future generations are to remember us more with gratitude than sorrow, we must achieve more than just the miracles of technology. We must also leave them a glimpse of the world as it was created, not just as it looked when we got through with it."

"This is not Johnson's war. This is America's war. If I drop dead tomorrow, this war will still be with you."

"The last thing I wanted to do was to be a wartime President."

"I make a lot of pieces of music that I never release as CDs."

"When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue."

"The harmony of the universe dictates that the legacy we leave is written in the hearts of others."

"The echoes of eternity remind us that the silence between the notes creates the music."