What I seek is the highest possible batting average.

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.

the main thing is to make history not to write it

Love is more abundant than we could possibly imagine. Just like there is more air than we could possibly breathe in, there is more love than we could possibly perceive.

It is in dialogue with pain that many beautiful things acquire their value.

Be a man and breathe life back into the woman in me.

I love food and feel that it is something that should be enjoyed. I eat whatever I want. I just don't overeat.

Ability is the art of getting credit for all the home runs somebody else hits.

There are no hard and fast rules. Sometimes you work for free and get no credit or courtesy. That's why you make sure you do what you love.

If you take care of the little things, the big things take care of themselves.

There s a difference between being in love and being in love with the idea of love.

Mankind is not a circle with a single center but an ellipse with two focal points of which facts are one and ideas the other.