It is with wits as with razors, which are never so apt to cut those they are employed on as when they have lost their edge.

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.

I came, I saw, I copied, and I left

Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.

Work is the only thing that gives substance to life.

I'm choosing to suffer less. To put myself and my family through less pain.

No one is a natural - you have to work at being a natural.

There are lessons in everything. The bad, the good. Our job is to listen, and to continue to learn, so that maybe we get better at this. Maybe get better at life.

India's way is not Europe's. India is not Calcutta and Bombay. India lives in her seven hundred thousand villages.

I didn't have musical upbringing. I never listened to music growing up, thinking "I want to make my own music". I just listened to music for pleasure.

It's refreshing to see a woman who can artfully weave her individuality into an otherwise safe ensemble.

I respect a woman too much to marry her.