It is fun to be in the same decade with you.

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 you have a good sense of dressing, there wouldn't be any need to spend a fortune to look good.

Spiritual people are not those who engage in certain spiritual practices; they are those who draw their life from a conversational relationship with God.

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

We are asking a really fundamental question whether thought can ever be creative. If thought is not the ground of creation then what is creation? Is love the only factor that is creative?

I'm not particularly fond of kissing strange men-contrary to popular belief.

I've aged. 'Patagonia' has robbed me of a decade of my life.

It once occured to me that literature - all art really - is either talking to people about God, or talking to God about people.

Eventually the person who tries to fix the problem will be blamed for causing it.

You're able to love others, to give to others, and do for others by giving and doing for yourself first.

Winter's notion of poetry is tragedy. It knows nothing of comedy. Its laughter was frozen on its lips long ago.