I row after health like a waterman.

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.

... omniscience about life and death is not within a physician's purview. A doctor should never write off a person a priori.

If you're in bed and can't smell the bacon frying in the kitchen - you're rich.

It is better to struggle pursuing what matters than to excel at achieving the inconsequential.

Micro satellites, about the size of a loaf of bread, are going to be going into space more and more.

Some consider me as a living Buddha. That's nonsense. That's silly. That's wrong. If they consider me a simple Buddhist monk, however, that's probably okay.

For me, Dracula has always been associated with travel and beautiful historical places.

I'm too much left brain. I very much have an emotional response to things; I love literature and films and storytelling. I need to nourish my right side, it doesn't get a lot of exercise.

Katz traces the courageous role of Black women in settling the West (and] deftly shows how these pioneering spirits helped stabilize early communities in Texas, Oklahoma, California and elsewhere.

The best eraser in the world is a good night's sleep.

Grave-stones tell truth scarce forty years. Generations pass while families last not three oaks.