What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.

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.

Your kiss swallows meAnd engulfs my very soul

Customs, morals--is there a difference?

How we respond to the opportunities and challenges of the outside world now determines how much the outside world values us.

More and more, the hardest part of crying is when I can't stop.

They wouldn't have picked you to tell their story if you weren't the one.

We are a debtor nation, and we owe now $19 trillion and it's going to go up very fast by the way from this point.

You're making a movie, not a documentary. If you made a film like the historians would like you to make, you're not going to go and see it. I'd rather see paint dry.

That was when the Spanish came in and conquered the Aztecs. I thought that was a clever thing.

Three or four drops of height have nothing to do with savageness.

That we must all die, we always knew, I wish I had sooner remembred it.