War: that mad game the world so loves to play.

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.

From all of our beginnings, we keep reliving the Garden story.

Confidence is highly erotic.

We Americans typically are more positive about our individual futures, which we have some control over, than we are the nation's or the world's, which we see largely through the media prism.

Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.

I had no idea 'Big Green Tractor' was going to be as big a hit as it was. You just can't predict those things.

You can't be a proper comic unless you've been out on stage and felt the fear.

I hate high heels. Walking in high heels for eight hours a day should be forbidden by the Geneva Convention.

Acting means living, it's all I do and all I'm good at. If I weren't getting paid well, I would still be acting in a small troupe somewhere.

We are born, we live and we die - in the midst of the marvelous.

And evermore the waters worship God;-- And bards and prophets tune their mystic lyres While listening to the music of the waves!