An excuse is a lie guarded.

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.

In a relationship, when trust is lost, everything is lost.

You have these catch-phrases that you associate with 'The X-Files': 'Trust No One,' 'Deny Everything.' 'Believe the Lie' was one of them.

Good men make good rhinoceroses, unfortunately.

I think it's the same simple thing for everyone - to be happy, and have love in your life.

Never serve oysters in a month that has no paycheck in it.

What constitutes the authentic human being?

Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.

I think stimulus money is an absolute mistake.

Might does not make right! Right makes right!

The pleasure of working with somebody who's an actor is they don't waste time with stuff that doesn't matter.