When I am reading a book, whether wise or silly, it seems to me to be alive and talking to me.

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.

Only this time, now that she knew what it felt like to kiss him, she didn’t want to slap that look off his face, she wanted to kiss it off.

With so many ways to communicate at our disposal, we must not forget the transformative power of a live music experience and genuine human exchange.

I have been alone since my husband died. I stay in my home. I don't date. It's hard to date when you're at home. Nobody knows you.

Anyone who creates something new or does something different artistically is going to be singled out.

Misfortune makes of certain souls a vast desert through which rings the voice of God.

Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.

I think the way IBM has embraced the open source philosophy has been quite astonishing, but gratifying. I hope they'll do very well with it.

Because I cannot work except in solitude, it is necessary that I live my work and that is impossible except in solitude.

Our secret weapon, Khione! We're not just a bunch of demigods. We're a team.

The purest love is the one between parents and their children. The rest may be more elevated, but never as deep or long-lasting.