When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

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.

Gone. The saddest word in the language. In any language.

Salvation is the creation of new desires, not just new goodies.

In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths

You have to get up pretty early in the morning to invent the news.

In our manner of speech, our plans of living, our dealings with others, our conduct and walk in the church and out of it-all should be done as becomes the gospel (Phil. 1:27).

You have to love yourself or you'll never be able to accept compliments from anyone.

I had always been taught that life was the other way around -- that you had to make sure you got what was coming to you . . .

The bad guys I play don't want to be bad. It's the struggle between the part of them that's an animal and the part that's the intellect that's interesting.

If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.

We die. That may be the meaning of life. But we do language. That may be the measure of our lives.