Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.

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.

Everything Satan has to offer you is a collection of what Jesus rejected

Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible.

We the people, elect leaders not to rule but to serve

If you're crazy enough to do what you love for a living, then you're bound to create a life that matters.

When I got near teen age, I was so happy with my friends and the African American culture that I couldn't imagine not being part of it.

When you follow your bliss, you begin to meet people who are in the field of your bliss, and they open the doors to you.

The simplest and most familiar truth seems new and wonderful the instant we ourselves experience it for the first time.

Reputation runs behind the current state of affairs.

I look a lot like my father and his mother.

Where necessity ends, desire and curiosity begin; and no sooner are we supplied with everything nature can demand than we sit down to contrive artificial appetites.