No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

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.

Love is the best religion

Instead, we linger over a luxury that costs nothing: Imagining what may be.

I stopped dating for six months a year ago. Dating requires a lot of energy and focus.

I will never apologize for the United States of America - I don't care what the facts are. Said after 'Vincennes' shot down an Iranian Airliner.

If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.

I work through life with commas. I don't even know, do you have parentheticals?

I don't have a computer. A computer's a typewriter. I already have a typewriter.

The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

What we call soul has been around a long time. It comes out of a particular culture that is African in origin, but influenced by 250 years of slavery, as well as other forms of racial oppression.

It is impossible to divide the interest of a country and a company that works on its soil.