There never appear more than five or six men of genius in an age, but if they were united the world could not stand before them.

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.

Clear direction leads to clear results

Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet.

I'm not going to do a song that's really sad and thoughtful. Although I've done ballads like 'Dear Darlin', ' I want to make them dance and be happy.

Don't worry about what other people are doing. Worry about what you're doing.

I don't think we've got the gospel right yet.I don't think the liberals have it right. But I don't think we have it right either. None of us has arrived at orthodoxy.

If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.

We shall then defeat the whole lot of them in one go!

Methodological individualism is the doctrine that psychological states are individuated with respect to their causal powers.

Writing for me is largely about rewriting.