By candle-light nobody would have taken you for above five-and-twenty.

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.

Spiritual Practice involves being constantly aware

How far can you go in life if you don't love yourself?

I do think that being the second [female Supreme Court Justice] is wonderful because it is a sign that being a woman in a place of importance is no longer extraordinary.

Under no stretch of imagination can war be regarded as an ethical process; yet war, force, terror, and propaganda were the evolutionary means employed to weld the German people into a tribal whole.

God is not interested in you doing this for Him, He is interested in doing things THROUGH you.

Whatever is for the sake of Allah will go on and continue. Whatever is for other than Allah, it will end and be severed

I can always live by my pen.

When there is not enough to eat, people starve to death. It is better to let half of the people die so that the other half can eat their fill.

You don’t forget the face of the person who was your last hope.

If laser beams can cut through mountains, why should we doubt the power of prayer?