If you were not reasoned into your beliefs, you cannot be reasoned out of them.

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.

terrorism is adamant. Fight against requires endurance, specific Counter-terrorism, Intelligence and swift operation

In a time of war, truth is always replaced by propaganda.

No man discovers anything big if he does not make himself small.

For things to change, you've got to change. For things to get better, you've got to get better.

Very few of the so-called liberals are open-minded.... They shout you down and won't let you speak if you disagree with them.

The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy.

I can contribute, be valuable and grow in many ways, since my interests are so varied. That is very satisfying.

Punch a man on the nose, kick an old man downstairs, shoot somebody or any old thing like that, that’s my job. But argue with women in love—no thank you!

Books are medicine and you have to take the right medicine that you need at that moment or that day or that time in your life.

I'm super, super casual. I like boxer shorts or jeans or tank tops, tennis shoes and flip flops. That's about it for me.