All fits of pleasure are balanced by an equal degree of pain or languor; it is like spending this year part of the next year's revenue.

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.

The creator created women to control those wild, uncontrollable, intriguing men.

The only man who can't change his mind is a man who hasn't got one.

Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

You've got to pursue your dreams and it will get you to places that you can't even imagine.

As man draws nearer to the stars, why should he not also draw nearer to his neighbor?

And while other passions in your life may at some point begin to bank their fires, the shared happiness of good homemade food can last as long as we do.

It's only when you make the process your goal that the big dream can follow.

Anything that has to do with money, I want to be in that business.

And that's when you learned, your top fund-raiser was a murder suspect.

The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.