I shall not mingle conjectures with certainties.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

Have you spent so much time in the darkness that you cannot understand the light?

The greatest failure in life is the failure to participate in life.

I had very literal parents and I wanted to survive with metaphor and art, and there was a real sense of shame around it.

The trouble with referees is that they know the rules, but they do not know the game.

We're often told that we live in a globalized world, and we talk about it all the time, but people don't stop to think about what it means.

Read a lot when you're on vacation, but nothing that has to do with your business.

In the broken places, the light shines through.

A lot of my friends who grew up in Manhattan have a strange phobia about Brooklyn. It's big and scary and they get lost.

Life is too short to harbor any hostilities towards anybody.

Ye fearful saints fresh courage take, The clouds you so much dread Are big with mercy and shall break, With blessings on your head