I heard the little bird say so.

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.

One can go a long way after one is tired.

Just like New Yorkers themselves, the trees in New York [city] work harder than any others in the world.

Even on the worst days I am without a doubt still happier doing this than I am doing anything else. On acting.

You can't claim you're for peace if you're not willing to disturb it.

All the conservation efforts in the world won't be enough to make a dent in the oncoming sustainability crisis our planet faces.

Genius declares itself to be a kind of higher masculinity.

Observe how every truth and every error, each a thought of someone's mind, clothes itself with societies, houses, cities, language, ceremonies, newspapers

Anything I do, I do with my heart. This is why I sometimes get very upset or sometimes get very personal when I'm working.

If you can create harmony in your own life, This harmony will enter into the vast world.

He probably was mediocre after all, though in a very honorable sense of that word.