Here is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle.

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.

Lip-locking with a supernatural hottie to save your little brother doesn't count as kissing.

You have to open your mind. I like the ability to express myself in a deep way. It's the closest music to our humanity - it's like a folk music that rises up out of a culture.

You know, I would say that songwriting is something about the expression of the heart, the intellect and the soul.

You know, fathers just have a way of putting everything together.

I don't even have cable anymore, or a television. I just watch on computers. It's clearly the future of where we're heading.

The message is not so much that the worms will inherit the Earth, but that all things play a role in nature, even the lowly worm.

I want to live to be 120. That's when I will start worrying about my age.

I just don't see this old idea of the Red peril, itching to take over the world. I think you can explain a lot of the Soviets' moves as stemming from a basic sense of insecurity.

Innumerable as the stars of night, Or stars of morning, dewdrops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.

I can't exist without books.