When a true genius appears, you can know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in a confederacy against him.

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.

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.

Withdraw from talking about leaving someone behind. Just rekindle the friendship and love while you still have that moment together.

I don't need extra hours to clear my mind. I just need to stop taking everything seriously and drown myself in worry. All I need is to be a child again. To be free. And, start living again!

Seize the day and put the least possible trust in tomorrow.

There is something fearfully strengthening about cutting free even if the ties bandage the heart itself.

Asking the proper question is the central act of transformation!

It's April 15, tax day. The federal tax code is over 74,000 pages long. But stick with it because after page 72,000, it gets really good.

I don't live my life on the road. I'm getting on a bit and there's a lot of other things in my life. Our lovely children and their lives. It's more of a part-time business these days.

I can be me, and people seem quite happy with that.

Composition has almost always been solitary.

If our hours were all serene, we might probably take almost as little note of them as the dial does of those that are clouded.