If you have spent two years in bed trying to wiggle your big toe, everything else seems easy.

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.

All knowledge that Science has acquired so far, has been through the concentration of the powers of the mind.

It’s a pity that virgins can’t be issued with some kind of barcode. Think of the problems that would have saved you.

Conscience: That which makes a boy tell his mother before his sister does.

Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.

Shakespeare is all big themes, like the most amazing love, or the most scary war.

I fancied myself as some kind of god or an economic reformer like Keynes

If we believe that the universe is unfriendly and that our very souls are in danger, peace will be elusive at best.

Ultimately, we measure ourselves against our own ideas of idealism and perfection, and we don't always come very close to them.

I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. [Thorn]