Our true destiny is not to be ministered unto but to minister to ourselves and to our fellow men.

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.

What is greater than painIs a greater brainMore powerful than anything.

Good luck is when opportunity meets preparation, while bad luck is when lack of preparation meets reality.

Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

Colors pursue me like a constant worry. They even worry me in my sleep.

We all have our little illusions about our own mental abilities.

There is no definition of a mental disorder. It's bullshit. I mean, you just can't define it.

To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.

Music is essentially built upon primitive memory structures.

It doesn't matter as long as you're there to enjoy the atmosphere. How else am I an entertainer?

Science fiction is hard to define because it is the literature of change and it changes while you are trying to define it.