Our national determination to keep free of foreign wars and foreign entanglements cannot prevent us from feeling deep concern when ideals and principles that we have cherished are challenged.

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 dreams are like movies, then memories are films about ghosts.

I don't think of myself as funny - I don't fill up a room with my humor... I would fail miserably as a stand-up comedian.

It's the way of all flesh, you know. Aging takes its toll. Like I said, it's the way of all flesh. When the time came and he finally had to step down, the thing that kept him going disappeared.

I spent my first paycheck on a vintage Mercedes.

You ought to expect better of people. It encourages you to be a better person yourself.

There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.

Our desires cut across one another, and in this confused existence it is rare for happiness to coincide with the desire that clamoured for it.

You can't get right answers if you're asking the wrong questions.

Strength and conditioning are the keys to good performance and longevity in gymnastics.

Quality comes not from inspection, but from improvement of the production process.