If the men of wit and genius would resolve never to complain in their works of critics and detractors, the next age would not know that they ever had any.

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.

Mendacity is a system that we live in, " declares Brick. "Liquor is one way out an'death's the other.

When you have left your life, you will be judged not for your possessions but for your contributions.

There are tough players and nice guys, and I'm a tough player

A writer falls in love with an idea and gets carried away.

We live in a spiritual Universe. God is in, through, around and for us.

I look forward to competing.

When real independence comes to India, the Congress and the League will be nowhere unless they represent the real opinion of the country.

And because of our selfishness, we will be condemned to the worst torture humankind ever invented for itself: loneliness.

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.