“There is nothing to fear except fear it's self.”

“experience should teach us that it is always the unexpected that does occur.”

“The war for freedom will never really be won because the price of freedom is constant vigilance over ourselves and over our Government.”

“We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face... we must do that which we think we cannot.”

“If life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.”

“When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.”

“Earth's a howling wilderness,Truculent with fraud and force.”

“The sea is masculine, the type of active strength. Look, what egg-shells are drifting all over it, each one, like ours, filled with men in ecstasies of terror, alternating with cockney conceit, as the sea is rough or smooth. Is this sad-colored circle an eternal cemetery?”