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.

The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today.

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.

In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.

Don't worry about what you can't do, do what you can do!

Life has got to be lived - that's all there is to it. At seventy I would say the advantage is that you take life more calmly. You know that 'this too shall pass!'

The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer.

The real secret to guacamole is that you use exactly the elements that you need, which is cilantro, onion, tomato, and jalapenos. And, of course, avocado.

Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.

I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

When I am in Africa, I realize I don't know much, have not seen much, and there's a lot to be done.

Hunger, she often tells me, has nothing to do with the belly and everything to do with the mind. What Mary really runs isn't a bakery, but a community.

I knew my purpose well and clear: to show how Nature behaves without cluttering its beauty with abtruse mathematics.

My weight fluctuates constantly—I don't really take good care of myself. I just sort of exist and survive.