Take egotism out and you would castrate the benefactors.

The eye is the painter and the ear the singer.

No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains.

All the great ages have been ages of belief.

Motion or change, and identity or rest, are the first and second secrets of nature: Motion and Rest. The whole code of her laws may be written on the thumbnail, or the signet of a ring.

I can believe a miracle because I can raise my own arm. I can believe a miracle because I can remember. I can believe it because I can speak and be understood by you.

I didn't find my friends; the good Lord gave them to me.