Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

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.

You gotta take chances in this life or you're alreadydead.

We stand and fight for God’s truth and with the truth we will win

The blackest night must end in dawn, the light dispel the dreamer's fear.

The only thing worth globalizing is dissent.

They, and they only, advantage themselves by travel, who, well fraught with the experience of what their own country affords, carry ever with them large and thriving talents.

Whoe'er thou art, thy Lord and master see, Thou wast my Slave, thou art, or thou shalt be.

Music is my passion, singing, performing. I play piano and musical theater is my background.

The secret to the fountain of youth is to think youthful thoughts.

I try never to worry in general. Worry is interest paid in advance on a debt that never comes due.

I've always felt that the basic unit of writing fiction is the sentence, and the basic unit of the screenplay is the scene.