All panegyrics are mingled with an infusion of poppy.

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.

According to most studies on the subject, boys who grow up without fathers grow up at a disadvantage.

It is unfair to hold people responsible for our illusions of them.

We should ban banks from risk-taking because society is going to pay the price.

Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion.

Conscience is its own readiest accuser.

I think we now come to the park expecting to win instead of playing not to lose.

Revelation does not mean man finding God, but God finding man, God sharing His secrets with us, God showing us Himself. In revelation, God is the agent as well as the object.

When you are at Rome, do as you see.

I can't believe I actually was in my own movie.

The function of vice is to keep virtue within reasonable bounds.