Pride, ill nature, and want of sense, are the three great sources of ill manners.

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.

No mind is much employed upon the present recollection and anticipation fill up almost all our moments.

What, after all, is the object of education? To train the body in health, vigor and grace, so that it may express the emotions in beauty and the mind with accuracy and strength.

Reverence for greatness dies out, and is succeeded by base envy of greatness.

When we have dealt with bin Laden and his network we will then broaden the campaign to go after other terrorists all around the world.

Sensations of peace, joy, and love will enter into you. They will be very subtle at first. Then they will grow stronger.

The only way to save the world is through socialism, but a socialism that exists within a democracy; there's no dictatorship here.

It is still my dream to own a little flower shop.

Blame is safer than praise

I tend to favour films that have multiple plot and story lines, multiple characters and ensemble pieces.

...the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.