“Plato is my friend, Aristotle is my friend, but my greatest friend is truth.”

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light.

The way to chastity is not to struggle directly with incontinent thoughts but to avert the thoughts by some imployment, or by reading, or meditating on other things.

The more time and devotion one spends in the worship of false gods, the less he is able to spend in that of the true One.

It is reasonable that forces directed toward bodies depend on the nature and the quantity of matter of such bodies, as happens in the case of magnetic bodies.

The instinct of brutes and insects can be the effect of nothing else than the wisdom and skill of a powerful ever-living agent.

No great discovery was ever made without a bold guess.

Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.

I consider my greatest accomplishment to be lifelong celibacy.

It is the weight, not numbers of experiments that is to be regarded.

I have a fundamental belief in the Bible as the Word of God, written by those who were inspired. I study the Bible daily.

Nature is pleased with simplicity. And nature is no dummy.

Nature is very consonant and conformable with herself.

As a blind man has no idea of colors, so we have no idea of the manner by which the all-wise God perceives and understands all things.

To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.

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

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.

Some things change and some things never will. A night spent with an old friend, my heart is full.

I’m just a careful person around wheels and stuff like that. I try to be as cautious as I can, cause I lost friends to motorcycle accidents and car accidents. So I don’t ever play around anything like that.

I’m either my best friend or my worst enemy.

In my dressing room, you’ll definitely find some Starbursts and Skittles. I have a lot of candles that remind me of home, and a humidifier for my voice. I also have some digital Kodak albums where I have pictures of my friends and family.

Sometimes your friends are your lovers, or have been at one time.

I have two really great best friends that are the only people I hang out with. I keep a close circle.

It sucks being judged by the world instead of your close friends or family. I try to just realise that the only people who matter are my family and friends.

Kindred weaknesses induce friendships as often as kindred virtues.