Though fear should lend him pinions like the wind, yet swifter fate will seize him from behind.

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.

I don't necessarily respect other people's religions, or any religion. But the people--I respect them, and I give them the honor they deserve, whatever they believe.

Our Father let the spirit of gratitude so prevail in our hearts that we may manifest thy Spirit in our lives.

Change before you have to.

I don't mind if my skull ends up on a shelf as long as it's got my name on it.

You, the actor, must be aware of when you're being funny, but the character you're playing should always be oblivious to the fact.

In the comedies I've been lucky enough to be a part of a world like Judd Apatow's, where I believe comedy comes from real people.

I never did think I had brain damage.

Seize the day. Because, believe it or not, each and every one of us in this room is one day going to stop breathing, turn cold, and die.

There is something truly restorative, finally comforting, in coming to the end of an illusion - a false hope.

I just imagine all the other runners are big spiders, and then I get super scared.