The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been pecking at.

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.

Blessed with so many resources within myself the world was not necessary to me. I could do very well without it.

A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.

All I ever did was supply a demand that was pretty popular.

I don't want this big stardom thing. I just want a good script.

No one questions the validity, the urgency, the essentiality of the Voting Rights Act.

It's dangerous to get calm. You need some nerves to work from, it's good energy. It's not good to have no nerves. You'd fall asleep on stage.

Wherever you live is your temple, if you treat it like one.

"Love is a luxury." "No. Love is an element." An element. Like air to breathe, earth to stand on.

That he would love her no matter what she told him, and that he was the kind of man who loved her already and would love her forever.

got a little red line that tells you, boy where the razor's been.