Principally I hate and detest that animal called man; although I heartily love John, Peter, Thomas, and so forth.

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.

Like Garth Brooks said about it, you need to live where you could honestly choose, if you had to, on whether to give up one yesterday for one more tomorrow, you have to be able to say no to that.

The greatest thing about youth is that you're not yet battle-weary, so you'll try anything.

To be sure, it is not the fruits of scientific research that elevate a man and enrich his nature, but the urge to understand, the intellectual work, creative or receptive.

I feel like people just let each other live a little more in New York.

I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.

There's always kids who become stop motion animators. I get stuff all the time. They put it on YouTube. It's exciting to see.

Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either.

The wise man always throws himself on the side of his assailants. It is more his interest than it is theirs to find his weak point.

You can begin feeling whatever you want (even if it's not there).. the universe will correspond to the nature of your song.

I believe in building bridges, but we should only build our end of the bridge.