If a lump of soot falls into the soup and you cannot conveniently get it out, stir it well in and it will give the soup a French taste.

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.

Flying in a modern jet airplane doses the human with levels of radiation comparable to those found in nuclear disaster zones.

Silicon Valley is way more correlated with Nasdaq than anyone admits.

As a queen I speak about unity and respect. I think that is the most important thing.

As an atheist, I was predisposed to not enjoy the MAZE performance. I am happy to report the opposite

There are few things as toxic as a bad metaphor. You can't think without metaphors.

If the culture doesn't work, don't buy it.

There's an audience for all kinds of great art.

For some reason, I'm really comfortable talking about my personal life in songs.

I've learned the hard lesson that you can't pin your heart on anything until it's a completely done deal.