Although the devil be the father of lies, he seems, like other great inventors, to have lost much of his reputation by the continual improvements that have been made upon 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.

The truth is not for all men but only for those who seek it.

I just loved making words into stories by the sound of my voice.

Thanks be to God that, even though at times we may “forget” Him, He never forgets us.

I wait all year for the colder seasons, just so that when I wear my Hogwarts scarf it's functional as well as fashionable.

Donate and do not talk about it, they say you do nothing for the society; do and talk about it, they say you seek publicity!

I grew up on a ranch with my father, so he educated us really early on about guns. We used to go target shooting all the time.

I was always sad as a child, for as long as I can think back. I hated crowds of people, and used to sit in a corner by myself, just thinking.

I don't really believe that you need to be married to someone to be their life partner.

Dancing is a feeling expressed from the inside out.

Friendship is not always the sequel of obligation.