... the atheists, libertines, despisers of religion ... that is to say all those who usually pass under the name of Free-thinkers.

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.

You get what you give. What you put into things is what you get out of them.

The little estimate we put on prayer is evidence from the little time we give to it.

And then his arms were around me. When he kissed me it was hungrier somehow, as if this moment was all we had, and we had to taste it, drink it, savor it, and not waste a single drop.

That first bass I had was an Eko, a very old thing with a thin neck, I had that for quite a while.

Fear will try to keep you from taking that first step. Don't give in to fear, do it afraid.

I thought we were gonna open up the world of poetry and music to all kinds of things, and yet, I can't really think of anyone who's done anything like it since.

I didn't want to chase movies. It's too hard. You've got to work at it - opening nights, photo shoots, publicity people, managers. I never wanted to do that. I'm too lazy.

You can define advertising as the science of creating and placing media that interrupts the consumer and then gets him or her to take some action.

I'm a guy that appreciates spontaneity and a woman being genuine and different.

Energy is an eternal delight.