It may pass for a maxim in State, that the administration cannot be placed in too few hands, nor the legislature in too many.

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 courage to ask question is a daring act.

Commitment is an act, not a word.

Get good live and get a following because that's what people notice.

The counsels and decrees of God do not truckle to the frail and fickle will of man.

I want to say one word to you and this word is “Joy”. Wherever there are consecrated people, seminarians, men and women religious, young people, there is joy, there is always joy!

If you truly want to escape the ordinary, you'll simply need to keep evolving. Whether what you seek is above or below.

Great blunders are often made, like large ropes, of a multitude of fibres.

Lenin said that people vote with their feet. Well, that's what's happening. They either go, or they don't go. It's all politics. It's all demographics.

I had panic attacks during rehearsal. There were times when I really thought I wasn't going to be able to do it.