“Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation.”

This most beautiful system of the sun, planets and comets, could only proceed from the counsel and dominion of an intelligent and powerful being.

God’ is a relative word and has a respect to servants, and ‘Deity’ is the dominion of God, not over his own body, as those imagine who fancy God to be the soul of the world, but over servants.

The motions which the planets now have could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent agent.

We are to admit no more causes of natural things than such as are both true and sufficient to explain their appearances.

If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get similar results.

The description of right lines and circles, upon which geometry is founded, belongs to mechanics. Geometry does not teach us to draw these lines, but requires them to be drawn.

God is the same God, always and everywhere. He is omnipresent not virtually only, but also substantially, for virtue cannot subsist without substance.

There are more sure marks of authenticity in the Bible than in any profane history.

If I had stayed for other people to make my tools and things for me, I had never made anything.

Poetry is a kind of ingenious nonsense.

A body in motion tends to stay in motion unless acted on by an outside force.

I see I have made my self a slave to philosophy.

You have to make the rules, not follow them.

Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

Where both are friends, it is right to prefer truth.

Opposite to godliness is atheism in profession, and idolatry in practice. Atheism is so senseless and odious to mankind, that it never had many professors.

At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.

Arguments that explain everything explain nothing.

How can I explain the difference to me between America and Russia? the America I’ve known is a place where men on horseback escort union marchers, the Russia I’ve known is a place where men on horseback slaughter young Socialists and Jews.

God doesn’t owe us an explanation for everything and actually what I’ve found is that explanations don’t comfort. What comforts is the presence of God, not the explanation of God.

Human lives are hard, even those of health and privilege, and don’t make much sense. This is the message of the Book of Job: Any snappy explanation of suffering you come up with will be horseshit.

The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.

I love New York. It’s hard to explain, but it’s the energy of the city. It’s not like L.A. where everything is spread out.

Never complain. Never explain.