It is a miserable thing to live in suspense; it is the life of the spider.

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.

Immense wealth, and its lavish expenditure, fill the great house with all that can please the eye, or tempt the taste. Here, appetite, not food, is the great desideratum.

Give them back! Give my tears back, right now——with interest!!

Death began to look like a friend.

I mean, I think that - as an actress, in particular, I'm basically a fool, and I see the world upside down.

Health is the most critical thing in our life. With your health anything is possible, without it you can't do anything.

I can't go on to page two until I can get page one as perfect as I can make it. That might mean I will rewrite and rewrite page one 20, 30, 50, 100 times.

When it comes to little girls, God the father has nothing on father, the god. It's an awesome responsibility.

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

(Stereotyping) is only for those without the imagination to see people as they are instead of being like someone else they understand.

You are not a saint because you keep the rules and are blameless; you are a saint if you live in the real world, going out and loving the real people God has put into your life.