Surely mortal man is a broomstick!

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.

The mind’s nature is worldly. If someone comes late, the mind will say ‘Why did you come at this wrong time?’ And this will create [bondage with] an iron shackle.

The pursuit of dreams is the fulfillment of the scriptures.

I didn't want to be an immigrant. I was forced to be an immigrant. Alexis de Tocqueville, the French writer, said that the powerful and the happy never go into exile. He was right.

I think you can't be really posh and be an interesting actor. I'm a bit of a posh rough.

If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it.

One of the things I want to do that's outside the realm of acting and the arts - although both have their place in this - is ending childhood hunger here in America.

We cannot control what others do to us, but through God we can control the way we respond to them.

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

My whole life has been a twenty years struggle between poetry and prose, or, if you like to call it so, Music and Law.