Tis nothing when you are used to it.

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.

Right. Because if you have trouble putting ketchup and mustard on a hot dog, you should totally move on to saving lives.

The only people I have been able to use are those who fought

If you're successful and stressed out, you're succeeding in spite of your stress, not because of it.

My songs are like my kids.

You'd be surprised how fast things happen when the right man comes along.

The only poll obviously that matters is the last one, the one that's counted after all the votes are cast.

Eating sundaes is something you can't do every night.

Above all things-read. Read the great stylists who cannot be copied rather than the successful writers who must not be copied.

In Brazil, when you say you're going to be an artist you always get that point of view that this is a crazy career and you might not make it. In my case, it kind of happened.

Like Lincoln, I would like to believe the ballot is stronger than the bullet. Then again, he said that before he got shot.