He was a fiddler, and consequently a rogue.

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 very fact that we now design and manufacture robot companions for the elderly marks a turning point. We ask technology to perform what used to be "love's labor": taking care of each other.

I do not need the strength of your arm to make a knight of you, Gavin. All I need is your heart, and that you have given, ' the Prince said.

If you truly believe in the value of life, you care about all of the weakest and most vulnerable members of society.

When I was young, everyone laughed at me when I said that I wanted to be a professional basketball player...now it's my turn to laugh.

You can judge a leader by the size of the problem he tackles... Other people can cope with the waves, it's his job to watch the tide.

Such leadership occurs when one or more persons engage with others in such a way that leaders and followers raise one another to higher levels of motivation and morality.

You never want to be completely alone at what you do. Competition is good for everyone.

Now let us begin. Now let us rededicate ourselves to the long and bitter - but beautiful - struggle for a new world.

That summer when she was eighteen, it seemed anything could happen, anything at all.

The many speak highly of you, but have you really any grounds for satisfaction with yourself if you are the kind of person the many understand?