Proper words in proper places make the true definition of a style.

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.

It is not until you rhyme with a person that makes you their perfect match, it is when you are satisfied with each others peculiarities, and find jewels in their loopholes.

When I talk about God, I'm not necessarily talking about religion. To me, God is the energy and light that each of us carries.

The living deserve attention, too

It is necessary that... we should believe that we are as capable of producing great art as we believe we are capable of doing great deeds.

History belongs above all to the man...who needs models, teachers, comforters and cannot find them among his contemporaries.

Violence can always destroy power; out of the barrel of a gun grows the most effective command, resulting in the most instant and perfect obedience. What never can grow out of it is power.

Funding a civilization through advertising is like trying to get nutrition by connecting a tube from one’s anus to one’s mouth.

The secret to finding our passion is that we bring passion in everything that we do.

I don't have an agent. The only work I get is through friendships that I've already built.

The fact remains that the materialistic view is a truncated view of reality.