Some men, under the notion of weeding out prejudice, eradicate virtue, honesty and religion.

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.

As an adult I had mastered the art of looking without seeing and listening without hearing and eating without tasting and maybe even existing without living.

I travel a lot and rarely make it home to Seattle.

I find color schemes that I just like and that just feel right.

If an incompetent chieftain is removed, seldom do we appoint his highest-ranking subordinate to his place

We have approximately 60,000 thoughts in a day. Unfortunately, 95% of them are thoughts we had the day before.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

Wisdom consists not so much in knowing what to do in the ultimate as in knowing what to do next.

Men are attracted to me because of my personality!

I want to do a big Broadway musical, at some point. I would love to do that. To do something there would be super-cool.

The little money I have - that is my wealth, but the things I have for which I would not take money, that is my treasure.