Ay, do despise me, I'm the prouder for it; I like to be despised.

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.

What man is really anti-progressive? For he is only anti-certain-people's-visions-for-the-future.

People cannot handle prejudice because they try to deal with the symptom. Prejudice is the symptom, wrong assumptions are the cause.'Prejudice is the daughter of assumption.

I remember being a teenager and seeing Seymour Cassel across a crowded room and being incredibly star struck, and not having the courage to say, 'Hello.'

When death finally comes you will welcome it like an old friend, being aware of how dreamlike and impermanent the pheneomenal world really is.

In England, where I come from, fashion and music go hand in hand. They're integral to each other.

The conversation ran as fluidly as the tea out of the samovar’s crooked nose.

I deeply believe that men and women need each other.

Be prepared to scramble right from the start.

Left unattended, problems only intensify.

Evening the playing field for women workers is a matter of fairness and with women now providing a significant share of their family's income, it is a family issue.