The first springs of great events like those of great rivers are often mean and little.

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.

Never dull your shine for somebody else.

It takes courage to stand for what you believe in.

There are a lot of people who go through a lot of tough things, and it doesn't stop them from wanting to be a better parent.

If I am to be killed, let Adolf do it himself!

Physicians are many in title but very few in reality.

I get outside a lot. I am a huge champion of physical activity. It's so important.

My whole career is just terror, from beginning to end. That's kind of my thing. A lot of happy accidents happened.

Understanding is the ultimate seduction of the mind. Go to the truth beyond the mind.

Whenever encountering a troublesome person, do not identify him as being cruel or stupid or rude or anything else like that. Instead, see him as a frightened person.