A lie has no legs, and cannot stand; but it has wings, and can fly far and wide.

Orthodoxy is my doxy - heterodoxy is another man's doxy.

Fanaticism is a fire, which heats the mind indeed, but heats without purifying. It stimulates and ferments all the passions; but it rectifies none of them.

Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in which the imagination has got the better of the judgment.

Reason is the test of ridicule, not ridicule the test of truth.

High birth is a thing which I never knew any one to disparage except those who had it not; and I never knew any one to make a boast of it who had anything else to be proud of.

The skilful disputant well knows that he never has his enemy at more advantage than when, by allowing the premises, he shows him arguing wrong from his own principles.

The Egyptians, by the concurrent testimony of antiquity, were among the first who taught that the soul was immortal.

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient Wisdom delighted to convey its precepts, for the regulation of life and manners.

Admiration is one of the most bewitching, enthusiastic passions of the mind; and every common moralist knows that it arises from novelty and surprise, the inseparable attendants of imposture.

When you surround yourself with dramatic people, your life will be driven by drama instead of being driven by destiny.

We've been so disconnected agriculturally and culturally from food. We spend more time on dieting than on cooking.

Everybody wants to laugh - you know that. They need to laugh... people need to laugh.

Top managers love people and they want to be loved - it turns out being loved is good for your career, especially if you are the boss.

The world is just - it's wonderful when you look at all the detail. It's just amazing.

I truly believe fishing is like a washing machine for your brain

I like to call it 'the national automobile slum.' You can call it suburban sprawl. I think it's appropriate to call it the greatest misallocation of resources in the history of the world.

If you come into my house, I'm going to hurt you.

The past is beautiful / like the darkness between the fireflies.

I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner.