A lie is an excuse guarded

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.

When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

You should never be ashamed to admit you have been wrong. It only proves you are wiser today than yesterday

The sight of you is good for sore eyes.

He was a bold man that first ate an oyster.

Language lacks the power to describe Faith.

Sir, I had rather be right than to be President.

Nobody believes in completely unadulterated capitalism.

You get the same equal rights that we do when we have a civil partnership. Heterosexual people get married. We can have civil partnerships.

New Yorkers, by reputation, are fast-talking, assertive and easily annoyed; I fit right in.

[Michael Flynn is not] the kind of person who is going to be more buttoned-up kind of military figure and that partisan tone.

I have a pretty eclectic taste in the movies that I like to watch, and also in the movies that I'm inspired to work on.

People sometimes ask if I want to be a solo artist, but it just wouldn't be any fun being on your own.

An art is only great and significant if it is one that all may enjoy. The art of a clique is but a plaything.

An idea isn't worth much until a man is found who has the energy and ability to make it work.