Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

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.

When everything gets answered, it's fake.

Truth is always strange, stranger than fiction.

Just be you...'cause that's good enough for me!

No coward soul is mine.

I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.

The secret of forgiveness is not to procrastinate, but to free yourself immediately of stress by totally forgiving this instant.

I liked the trichotomy, that's the only thing I ever liked.

Someone criticized an elderly man for wooing young women. He replied that that was the only way to rejuvenation, which was, afterall, everybody's wish.

Open your mind, allow your feelings to be expressed, to be pushed out, and your heart will neither break nor burst, but be a free-flowing channel of the life energy in your soul.

I'm used on every level. I have no friends. I have no resting place. I never sleep. I can never close my eyes. It's horrible.