In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my hearty vote to cut his throat before he married.

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.

The attractive power of love is intensified proportional to the intensity of thoughts, perception of duration, and the perceived distance.

Where you hang your feelings is where you hang your focus.

It's a discomfiting thing to have the person you love more than anything in the world toss a knife at your friend's head and walk away.

Through our consciousness, we can enter the stillness of silence and become blessed with the universal presence of peace.

Those rare individuals society labels geniuses are almost always freaks of nature and are naturally gifted rather than being diligent students who became geniuses because of their education.

We have enough money. You don't want to be Uncle Daddy.

It is in your act that you exist, not in your body. Your act is yourself, and there is no other you.

Love is stronger than violence.

Casey Affleck is a really good friend of mine. I know Casey a lot better than I know Ben, even though Ben and I have worked together a lot.

A leader must have knowledge. A leader must be able to teach.