I suggest a nationwide reading of the Holy Scriptures during the period from Thanksgiving Day to Christmas.

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.

Wealth creeps under your epidermis like poison. It invades your posture, your gestures, the way you carry yourself.

Looking for consciousness in the brain is like looking inside a radio for the announcer

One of the great things about turning 30 is figuring out how to dress comfortably and still look good.

Put a little love in your heart, and the world will be a better place.

It's funny - Frankie Valli's story and that advice that he was just getting from, you know, Christopher Walken's character, is very true for someone who's in a creative field.

The blessing is not about being able to receive as much as it is being in a position to give back to others.

Charlie X”)? Those were the hints, as far as I’m concerned.

Everything is in New York or L.A. or whatever, but Chicago is more of, like, a real world. It has the art and the music, but it's more centered and grounded.

You can't be a poet certainly of my generation and not have deep in your animal brain the comment of William Carlos Williams, no ideas except in things.

Better to be a jerk that knees than a knee that jerks.