Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.

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.

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.

A wise man will find us to be rogues by our faces.

The greatest part of our existence enfold in service of humanity.

All my jobs have been with food in one way or another since 1948. My parents were in the hotel business, and I just loved the warm hearted people who worked so hard with such good humor.

Mercedes does beautiful work, absolutely.

Dressing a baby is like putting an octopus into a string bag, making sure none of the arms hang out.

To sin is to be off the mark, that is, to inhibit development, contracting backward into regression rather than expanding forward into growth.

Sometimes words are not enough.

[N]othing is less reliable than unchecked claims from political officials that their secret conduct is justified by National Security Threats and the desire to Keep Us Safe.

I love life. I think it's fantastic. Sometimes it deals hard things, and when it deals great things, you have to seize them.

Philosophy alone makes the mind invincible, and places us out of the reach of fortune, so that all her arrows fall short of us.

The gospel is good news to those who know they don't measure up. It's offensive to those who think they do.