Men of wit, learning and virtue might strike out every offensive or unbecoming passage from plays.

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.

Believe in yourself and start achieving your dream. It waits for you on the other side of the publish button.

Businesspeople are like sharks, not just because we're gray and slightly oily, or because our teeth trail the innards of those we have eviscerated, but because we must move forward or die.

Some day you will be old enough to start reading fairy tales again.

I don't like to disappear between records. I like to play shows while I'm making the record.

The opposite of love is not hate; it's indifference. To be indifferent is to not express love.

I think the Democrats are right to protest, but I don't think Jeff Sessions is so far out of the range of normalcy that he shouldn't be confirmed.

We can't control forces of nature. But we can control what comes afterward. We have a chance to start fresh.

As long as I have a studio with producers, I can make something everyday. And the people know what type of quality it's going to be.

Transforming the European Union into a single State with one army, one constitution and one foreign policy is the critical challenge of the age

At school I briefly wanted to be a palaeontologist, but I was no good at chemistry and physics.