For to enter the palace of learning at the great gate requires an expense of time and forms, therefore men of much haste and little ceremony are content to get in by the back-door

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.

An old fashioned outfit is not a costume, it's a comedy.

The one who pulls the puppet strings knows fairytales can heal.

Things are what they are, and whatever will be, will be.

Parents are labelling, criticizing and reproaching the child on any account

Nows the time to go for all the gusto you can grab. You'll have plenty of time to be low-key when you're laid out on the slab.

I'm a gear head. I love gear. If I have the choice, of course I'd rather use a great microphone, a Neumann microphone and a vintage Neve board.

Let it be borne on the flag under which we rally in every exigency, that we have one country, one constitution, one destiny.

Bjork, I'd love to do something with her. I'd love to do some sort of crazy orchestral choir thing with her.

Home is wherever I go.

If the flag needs protection at all, it needs protection from members of Congress who value the symbol more than the freedoms that the flag represents.