The first springs of great events, like those of great rivers, are often mean and little.

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.

When a kingdom rests on it, I always expect difficulty. Then, if there is none, no blame. But if there is, one is prepared.

If you can't be the poet, be the poem.

Walk in the rain, smell flowers, stop along the way, build sandcastles, go on field trips, find out how things work, tell stories, say the magic words, trust the universe.

I bring out the worst in you and you bring out the best in me.

When you are at the Olympic Games, it comes down to a ten thousandth of a hair between making the next round or winning a race or getting second or third.

You know,” Cecily said, “you really didn’t have to throw that man through the window.

It's important for me to let my fans know I really don't care. I'm confident.

An hour of study, for the modern apostle, is an hour of prayer.

A gentleman is one who is too brave to lie, too generous to cheat, and who takes his share othe world and lets other people have theirs.

I'm always looking for a new thing that really terrifies me that I think I can't do it and accomplish that.