Patience alleviates, as impatience augments, pain; thus persons of strong will suffer less than those who give way to irritation.

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.

We're starting our own religion at last. The Order of Frisbeetarians. We believe that when you die, your soul ascends to a rooftop and you can never get it back.

For this taboo, retribution would soon knock my doorBut, I still wouldn't let that hold my feet to move on anymore.

Palestine is our unforgettable historic home. The very name would be a force of marvelous potency for summoning our people together.

When we allow God to be exalted in our difficulties we are in the perfect place to smell the fragrance of His Presence.

It's weird for me when someone asks me to do a remix as Girl Talk and not use samples.

What has any poet to trust more than the feel of the thing? Theory concerns him only until he picks up his pen, and it begins to concern him again as soon as he lays it down.

A lasting solution, the possibility to begin a new life, is the only dignified solution for the refugee himself.

No healthy Christian ever chooses suffering; he chooses God's will, as Jesus did, whether it means suffering or not.

Each nation has a main current in life; in India it is religion. Make it strong and the waters on either side must move along with it.

Well, what do you know," Pham said. "Butterflies in jackboots.