A man should never be ashamed to own that he has been in the wrong which is but saying ... that he is wiser today than yesterday.

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.

I don't regret any decision in my life... not my career, not marriage. Every experience has been so fulfilling in so many ways.

Dare to go forward. Courage is the mark of greatness in leadership

My genre-hopping has caused problems with marketing and sales departments over the years, because they need to know where to position a book with the booksellers.

I'm dead annoyed that I'm finding it so difficult to stop. But I am getting there [on kicking smoking habit]

Everything in the universe is created from something, which in turn is created from nothing.

A fight forms a powerful and strange bond between men.

I really believe that we have the power to manifest our own fates.

Years ago, I thought old age would be dreadful, because I should not be able to do things I would want to do. Now I find there is nothing I want to do after all

Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art.

I love music more than language: it's the best, it's universal.