To win this war, we have been forced into a strategic compromise which will most certainly offend the Russians.

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.

She liked then to wander alone into strange and unfamiliar places. She discovered many a sunny, sleepy corner, fashioned to dream in.

You have left too much of yourself in this land for it not to be yours. I, too, will always be yours, for you have left too much of yourself with me for it to be otherwise.

Whoever coined the phrase '"I can work well under pressure" should be put on trial for crimes against Humanity.

You have to have some kind of clarity or understanding of what's happening to write.

Violet has the shortest wavelength of the spectrum. Behind it, the invisible ultraviolet. Roses are Red, Violets are Blue. Poor violet, violated for a rhyme.

When I was a kid, I wanted to be a spy detective or a rock star.

You'll never get anything done if you walk around with an unchipped heart.

As a writer, you have a huge ego. You think that every line means something to everybody the same way it means to you. And that's not true.

In a highly competitive newspaper market, every editor needs to appeal to female readers to boost their circulation.

There are times when life's just real quiet and simple. I sometimes get tired of people saying, "Well, what are you really like?"