Better the occasional faults of a government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

We must especially beware of that small group of selfish men who would clip the wings of the American Eagle in order to feather their own nests.

Remember, remember always, that all of us, and you and I especially, are descended from immigrants and revolutionists.

True individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. People who are hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.

Never underestimate a man who overestimates himself.

People acting together as a group can accomplish things which no individual acting alone could ever hope to bring about.

Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.

Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough.

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.

The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.

That felt meaningful somehow, like the words on the pages ached for him to know their sorrow.

I had a dream about you last night... in it, I tried to sell a squirrel a deposit box to store his nuts in. He stole my cashews in the complimentary snack basket.

A camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I've seen.

Having leveled my palace, don't erect a hovel and complacently admire your own charity in giving me that for a home.

I'm still trying to be a kid. I really don't want to feel like an adult.

Men try to run life according to their wishes; life runs itself according to necessity.

That customer service representative is crazy, if he think I am going to pay that bill.

I have a lot of experience with making fake helmets out of foil.

It is the curse of prosperity that it takes work away from us, and shuts that door to hope and health of spirit.