"The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it."

"When I see an adult on a bicycle, I do not despair for the future of the human race."

"Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo."

"It becomes a bore doing imaginative books that do not touch imaginations, and at length one stops even planning them."

"The crisis of today is the joke of tomorrow."

"Strength is the outcome of need."

"And so, my fellow Americans: ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country."

"Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings."

"Men will not believe because they will not broaden their minds"

"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."

"What the public wants is the image of passion, not passion itself."

"The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution."