When they have discovered truth in nature they fling it into a book, where it is even worse hands.

Everyone is a genius at least once a year. The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.

It often takes more courage to change one's opinion than to stick to it.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

With most men, unbelief in one thing springs from blind belief in another.

A person reveals his character by nothing so clearly as the joke he resents.

The fly that doesn't want to be swatted is most secure when it lights on the fly-swatter.

What I do not like about our definitions of genius is that there is in them nothing of the day of judgment, nothing of resounding through eternity and nothing of the footsteps of the Almighty.

If we thought more for ourselves we would have very many more bad books and very many more good ones.

It is almost impossible to carry the torch of truth through a crowd without singeing somebody's beard.

Man…who lives in three places – in the past, in the present, and in the future – can be unhappy if one of these three is worthless. Religion has even added a fourth – eternity.

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When they speak of Hell there's something they miss there's a worse place to be and it's called the Abyss.

Don’t worry, my friend. I won’t let you die.” I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.

I'm not very experienced with boys or the whole dating thingy.

You will see - in the future, I will live by my watercolors.

Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.

Life's essential length is only a few pages long, as succinct as a line of verse and as brief as the title of a poem.

We're making it more difficult to obtain the necessary ingredients to produce meth and tightening criminal penalties for those who deal in this dangerous drug.

You can't pander to your audience. You might in the short term, but ultimately you can't hoodwink them, either.

I can eat everything; chocolate, hamburgers, pizza, go to McDonalds, Burger King, KFC. It's all in my body.