[D]rilling and arming, when carried on on a national scale, excite whole populations to frenzies which end in war.

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.

...my awakening life.I am awake in the present.The present is today.Today is a great gift.

Sleep is a mirror of life in which can be seen the reflection of death.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

Ordering a man to write a poem is like commanding a pregnant woman to give birth to a red-headed child.

I think American cinema, particularly, has become so disposable. It's not even cinema, It's just moviemaking.

Don't pass it by - the immediate, the real, the ours, the yours, the novelist's that it waits for.

I have a 'Play The Melody' philosophy. It means don't over arrange, don't make life difficult. Just play the melody-and do it the simplest way possible.

Sensual excess drives out pity in man.

Unfortunately, in our society, power means the ability to dominate and oppress.

The International Atomic Energy Agency is controlling this, the sanctions against Iran are lifted - but still the US are working on their missile defense system. What is the point of this?