Coming to grips with the reality that our planet is not the only one harboring intelligent life the universe.

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.

We can destroy what we have written, but we cannot unwrite it.

If personal space is vital to creativity, so is freedom from "peer pressure".

The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.

Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear so don't look and they'll stay farther away than you expect they would.

... go down to the country, take a house, get interested in local politics, in local scandal, in village gossip. Take an inquisitive and violent interest in your neighbours.

In a few hundred years you have achieved in America what it took thousands of years to achieve in Europe.

The easiest way to convince my kids that they don't really need something is to get it for them.

It was an ongoing struggle to say no, I don't want to be a part of the perpetuation of this stereotype.

I just love vintage. I have far too many vintage dresses.

Most of my lyrics are little stories about my experiences or those of my friends.