I think we consider too much the good luck of the early bird and not enough the bad luck of the early worm.

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.

If we don't cherish those who stay near, what do we have? Only longing.

if you want to match your beat with the universe look at the deepest level of present.

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

I'm such a lover of music that it would be very hard for me to pinpoint it to a particular artist.

I don't think I will be less good because there's less pressure on me.

If vices were profitable, the virtuous man would be the sinner.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

There is no more open door by which you can enter into the study of natural philosophy than by considering the physical phenomena of a candle

It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

And weep the more, because I weep in vain.