Complaint is the largest tribute heaven receives and the sincerest part of our devotion.

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.

I think part of my purpose in this life is to talk about magic, and to make it.

The idea of becoming a mother at sixteen was the scariest thing that she’d ever thought of.

We cannot totally understand God but we can totally love God. Embrace God.

If we defy the odds and ask, GOD will defy the odds and answer.

He had the muscular definition of a man who had spent his life restraining elephants in heat.

Reading is fuel for the brain. Writing is fuel for the spirit...

Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of a man.

When liberty is taken away by force it can be restored by force. When it is relinquished voluntarily by default it can never be recovered.

I look like the wrath of grapes.

It is astonishing that any man can forbear enquiring seriously whether there is a God; whether God is just; whether this life is the only state of existence.