[God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

Love hopes. Love helps. Love heals. Love hears.

I want the fever to grab me forever and want you to be my fever.

Self-reverence, self-knowledge, self-control; these three alone lead one to sovereign power.

Sinners cannot find God for the same reason that criminals cannot find a policeman: They aren't looking!

The women can always choose the patriarchal models, and you end up with a Margaret Thatcher.

Life is full of miracles, but they're not always the ones we pray for.

Here I stand and make Both myth and reality in my own way And live the violence of my dream and of my reality.

Contradictory as it seems, malnutrition is a key contributor to obesity.

I love drag queens... they perform me better than I ever could myself.

Painting gives the object itself; poetry what it implies. Painting embodies what a thing contains in itself; poetry suggests what exists out of it, in any manner connected with it.