The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.

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'd like to thank readers. Every time you open a book, it is a strike against ignorance. Unless you're reading Sarah Palin.

I am stuck in traffic in a taxicabwhich is typicaland not just of modern life

Isn't it a pleasure to study and practice what you have learned?

They want the federal government controlling the Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program.

I just started writing stuff to kill time on summer evenings. This is why I'm always telling people who ask me what they need to do to succeed to give up, do something else.

I feel more at home knowing I'm not really at home. It takes all the pressure off you trying to fit in!

I always make music that's reflective of the mindset I'm in at the time, and how I'm feeling.

If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

Taste is improved by cultivation.