When I am reading a book whether wise or silly it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

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.

I was trying to be this person who is cool, eternally rocking.

Get people back into the kitchen and combat the trend toward processed food and fast food.

No happy person can be quite so impervious to pain (Gail Wynand to Dominique Francon)

Do to your capacity. Always strive to extend your capacity. Ten minutes today, after a few days, twelve minutes. Master that, then again extend.

Being anxious is the worst feeling in the world.

A man cannot please long who has only one kind of wit.

He that hath a head of waxe must not walke in the sunne. [He that hath a head of wax must not walk in the sun.]

I was stationed in Norfolk, Virginia, for a while, about which the less said the better, and then I was in the Mediterranean, about which the more said the better.

There are surely people in London who would love to play us off against each other. That would be disastrous for the EU.

But, it is hard too, because I want to do another action film. Believe it or not, it was fun.