Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.

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.

Men did not love Rome because she was great. She was great because they had loved her.

JOH! Thank God I found you.”“I have 9022 gods listed in my database. Must I thank all of them?

You'll earn more money doing something you love, rather than just doing something because it pays you a high salary.

Don't start the day until you have it finished. Don't start the week until you have it finished. Don't start the month until you have it finished. Plan your day.

If fifty thousand men were to die for the good of the State, I certainly would weep for them, but political necessity comes before everything else.

You're like, both like, Alexander the Great.' We can't both be Alexander.' Well sometimes I think you're two side of the same coin, and I'm the metal in between.

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

Writing fiction is like remembering what never happened.

Digital television is no longer a probability, it is a certainty.

Well, you ask a silly question, and you get a silly answer.