Fine words! I wonder where you stole them.

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.

Endings are not always bad. Most times they're just beginnings in disguise.

Now is much better then was, and if and when aren't as great as now - yet.

A lie with confidence is more powerful than a truth without it.

I never went to rock concerts when I was a kid. I didn't see any rock & roll bands.

Since the advent of nuclear weapons, it seems clear that there is no longer any alternative to peace, if there is to be a happy and well world.

Prayer for worldly goods is worse than fruitless, but prayer for strength of soul is that passion of the soul which catches the gift it seeks.

For a long time visits among lovers and professions of love are kept up through habit, after their behavior has plainly proved that love no longer exists.

The only way we can make this world a better place is to transcend it.

The self-assured believer is a greater sinner in the eyes of God than the troubled disbeliever.

Asking art to express ideas is like asking a Sumo wrestler to play charades.