Ale is meat, drink and cloth; it will make a cat speak and a wise man dumb.

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.

More and more I am learning to let go of urgency and to let my soul sink deeply and refreshingly into contemplation of the joy of the Spirit.

When you confront, you save yourself a lot of sorrow.

I'd just as soon stay home and raise babies.

I do not want a husband who honors me as a queen if he does not love me as a woman.

I was obsessed with Elvis Presley when I was little.

I really love fan art, which I get sent a lot of. I really, really get a lot of. I get a kick out of it.

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of trauma, I will fear no concussion.

Plots are for dead people.

Get as rude as possible and don't let anyone tell you how to live.

I want a priest, a rabbi and a Protestant minister. I want to hedge my bets.