Under the rose, since here are none but friends, To own the truth we have some private ends.

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.

When the men are silent, it is our duty to raise our voices in behalf of our ideals.

You lose in the end unless you know how the wheel is fixed or can fix it yourself.

A man´s level of dignity must always be above his level of fear.

The fact is that every atom that we're made of is part of that first explosion of a nuclear star billions of years ago. We're connected to the entire universe.

If we ... capitalize on the very real strengths of older people, then added years of life can dramatically improve quality of life at all ages.

“How does one grow up?” I asked a friend the other day. There was a slight pause; then she answered, “By thinking.”

I think a lot of people, they don't love their jobs but they don't hate them enough to quit. So they're like, "Eh."

Put your thoughts to sleep, do not let them cast a shadow over the moon of your heart. Let go of thinking.

I don't think there's any way we can save the polar bears.