All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.

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.

Joyful living is a healthy life.

The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.

When I was to come to Washington the first time as Music Director of the Boston Symphony, Mrs. Johnson phoned us to find out if they could give us a party and who we would like to meet.

Getting you a date to prom is so hard that the hypothetical idea itself is used to cut diamonds.

The cheapest car anyone can ever own is always the car they presently own.

What's there to be nervous about? You just go out and play the game.

Don't believe everything you read.

It's inevitable to lose from time to time. The point is: don't get used to defeats.

Anybody that has a decent job or career has it because they love what they do.

My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.