It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere.

The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable.

Each new scientific fact gives rise to new uncertainties, and every pattern of starlight holds both a record and a prophecy.

It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days.

Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery.

The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future’s shape, look to the past.

The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.

We are all star stuff.

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

Politicians are terrified of losing touch with folks back home but content to be clueless about government's failure to fix real problems.

This (French-Kissing) is a really sexy thing to do, according to the French people, although you should bear in mind that they also like to eat snails.

The test of an invention is the power of an inventor to push it through in the face of staunch-not opposition, but indifference-in society.

I was too absorbed to be responsive

You become a disciple in the biblical sense only when you are totally and completely committed to Jesus Christ and His Word.

The immature artist imitates. The mature artist steals.

Grant me paradise in this world; I'm not so sure I'll reach it in the next.