Are you laboring under the impression that I read these memoranda of yours? I can't even lift them.

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.

Men prefer to believe that they are degenerated angels rather than elevated apes.

The power of music in Spanish is so strong, that I couldn't stay away from it any longer.

If you never take risks, you'll never accomplish great things. Everybody dies, but not everyone has lived.

Fear was the biggest bullshitter, he’d said. But sometimes, too, fear told the truth.

The closer a Negro got to the ballot box, the more he looked like a rapist.

To grow up is to accept vulnerability. To be alive is to be vulnerable.

Oh, heart, let's never grow too old To smile anew, when Christmas comes, At tassels red and tinsel thread, And tarlatan bags f sugarplums.

The manager who comes up with the right solution to the wrong problem is more dangerous than the manager who comes up with the wrong solution to the right problem.

I'm the hardest person to buy a gift for.