Brutes find out where their talents lie; a bear will not attempt to fly.

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.

It’s not love that the past needs in order to survive, it’s an absence of choices.

I never had a policy I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

My sister travels with me, and she's the person who keeps me in line, whether I like it or not. I trust her and also have a good, healthy fear of her.

It far easier to find a reason not to love someone, than otherwise. Rejection requires only one reason. Love requires complete acceptance.

The struggles women face today are simultaneously very, very old and very new.

I've always stayed pretty fit. I felt I needed to give myself energy by exercising and things like that.

I don't think it's so important who you vote for - you vote for who you believe in. The important thing is to vote, because it's our way and it's the best way.

The United States must keep what it has - diversity and tolerance - which make us what we are.

Momentum was momentum, whether you found it in music or on the street or in the beat of your own heart.

As for the music business itself, the key things have not changed that much. It operates like any business and money still keeps things moving.