Do it again on the next verse, and people think you meant it.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

The universe we observe has precisely the properties we should expect if there is, at bottom, no design, no purpose, no evil and no good, nothing but blind pitiless indifference.

Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams.

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another.

Circumstances do not make the man, they reveal him.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that... and all the glory of it.

The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that your very existence is an act of rebellion.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Young heads take example of the ancient.

If you talk bad about country music, it's like saying bad things about my momma. Them's fightin' words.

Common sense is the most widely shared commodity in the world, for every man is convinced that he is well supplied with it.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Be like a tree and let the dead leaves drop.

Thought is free.

Dare to risk public criticism.

Go on, get out. Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.

It is a mistake to think you can solve any major problems just with potatoes.