Ah, a German and a genius ! A prodigy, admit him !

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 was an organizer in the Food, Agricultural and Tobacco Workers Union down in North Carolina.

Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.

I had no television when I was little, just a stack of old, beat-up comics from the 1950s and 1960s.

Engineering without imagination sinks to a trade.

The secular mind and heart, however gifted and personally charming, has no place in the leadership of the church.

I will not be modest. Humble, as much as you like, but not modest. Modesty is the virtue of the lukewarm.

But, you know, I just want to play well and have fun playing well.

Grief is the doorway to a man's feelings.

Ugly deeds are taught by ugly deeds.

We want to have a spontaneous adventure. You can't plan an adventure, or it ceases to be one.