I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals.

Greatness, generally speaking, is an unusual quantity of a usual quality grafted upon a common man.

Dip your pen into your arteries and write.

Live for today. Multitudes of people have failed to live for today.... What they have had within their grasp today they have missed entirely, because only the future has intrigued them.

If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations, of heartaches and of remorse as his own . . . how much kinder, how much gentler he would be.

Whenever a free man is in chains we are threatened also. Whoever is fighting for liberty is defending America.

I would rather have written Fables in Slang than be President.