Life is a tragedy wherein we sit as spectators for a while and then act our part in it.

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.

Good cops make their bosses look good, and Hector was a one-man beauty school.

Consider everything an experiment.

Many great ideas, great love stories, and great achievements are born from a healthy irrationality.

Success requires, a human touch, intuitive powers and provocative thinking processes

I know of a charm by way of a prayer that will preserve a man from the violence of guns and all manner of fire-weapons and engines but it will do me no good because I do not believe it

For a long time I didn't want to do a solo thing, but there comes a point where everyone else is going outside of The Strokes and The Strokes filtering process.

No man is more than another unless he does more than another.

But fame is theirs - and future days On pillar'd brass shall tell their praise; Shall tell - when cold neglect is dead - "These for their country fought and bled."

We are looking forward to Donald Trump releasing his medical information. Just making sure everybody is meeting at the same bar here.

Artists are the best theologians. They feel things that are true before theologians can jargonize them into obscurity.