No man can tame a tiger into a kitten by stroking it.

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.

Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.

Things change pretty rapidly. But they don't change inevitably. They change because you work for it.

I think you fall out of love with theater while you're doing your eighth show of your eighteenth week and your body is saying, "Please make this end."

The advance of liberty is the path to both a safer and better world.

It's one of the things that makes it enjoyable to keep playing; you have to approach each set differently and make some balance between what you want to do and what seems right.

And to Shakespeare I owe my vision of the world as a theater, wherein all humans are acting out their parts.

The witnessing of titanic events is always dangerous, usually painful, and often fatal.

I love to listen to Howard Stern with the guy who drives me.

Nobody ever wrote a good book simply by collecting a number of accurate facts and valid ideas.

The lessons of history teach us - if the lessons of history teach us anything - that nobody learns the lessons that history teaches us.