When I am in danger of bursting, I will go and whisper among the reeds.

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.

Imagination is a process of seeing events or things with the minds eye.

Let us be the waves of love and let it wash the universe.

It's time you stop thinking that because you did something, it's... amazing. All you've got to do is say, 'OK. If I'm great, what do they call Steve Jobs?'

Bad advice is often most fatal to the adviser.

Wars produce warlike societies, which in turn make the world more dangerous for other societies, which are thus recruited into being war-prone themselves.

Don’t call us people with disabilities… we have DIFFabilities!

The Moon is essentially gray - no color - looks like plaster of paris - soft of gray sand.

Their unselfishness, the way they play and their poise factor. When you never panic, that's a great sign.

Take short views, hope for the best and trust in God.

Black men of our day were never told, The sky's the limit. ... We could aspire to Joe Louis but never Henry Ford.