The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false opinions they contracted earlier.

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.

God doesn't create imitations, so He designed you naturally. It’s ungratefulness to dream of putting on unnatural self. You have no right to fake God’s design!

And they certainly wouldn’t take you along to a murder. That would be irresponsible parenting.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons.

It would be difficult to dispel ignorance unless there is freedom to pursue the truth unfettered by fear.

If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.

My moods are inversely related to the clarity of the sky.

The whims of youth break all the rules.

Darkness is not chased away with sticks, not even cannons. One simply lights a small candle and the darkness flees before it.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

I get pretty attached to the majority of the characters I play. I can't help myself.