Every conjecture we can form with regard to the works of God has as little probability as the conjectures of a child with regard to the works of an adult.

There is no greater impediment to the advancement of knowledge than the ambiguity of words.

The rules of navigation never navigated a ship. The rules of architecture never built a house.

In every chain of reasoning, the evidence of the last conclusion can be no greater than that of the weakest link of the chain, whatever may be the strength of the rest.

I wanted to be a part of the downtown renaissance.

The finest productions of human art are immensely short of the meanest work of Nature. The nicest artist cannot make a feather or the leaf of a tree.

And, if we have any evidence that the wisdom which formed the plan is in the man, we have the very same evidence, that the power which executed it is in him also.

must acknowledge, that to act properly is much more valuable than to think justly or reason acutely.

It is a question of fact, whether the influence of motives be fixed by laws of nature, so that they shall always have the same effect in the same circumstances.

Every indication of wisdom, taken from the effect, is equally an indication of power to execute what wisdom planned.

For, until the wisdom of men bear some proportion to the wisdom of God, their attempts to find out the structure of his works, by the force of their wit and genius, will be vain.

Employment should not be your permanent assignment

There could be nothing, he reflected, to equal a government which was simply the honest enforcement, by means of the sword, of the laws of Islam.

George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live.

Live simply, so that all may simply live.

British taxpayers should not bear the costs of problems in the Eurozone.

From where can your authority and license as a parent come from, when you who are old, do worse things?

I believe very much that the most damning thing you can say about Muslims is that you're afraid to say anything because they'll hurt you.

We hear eagerly every thought and word quoted from an intellectual man. But in his presence our own mind is roused to activity, and we forget very fast what he says.

I'm not a sucka, so I don't need a bodyguard.

I'm a perfectionist, so doing a high quality, high caliber television show with great actors makes me feel like there's this whole world of television that I've never experienced.