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

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.

No sciences are better attested than the religion of the Bible.

Errors are not in the art but in the artificers.

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 Barbie is so popular, why do you have to buy her friends?

And music the best friend of your mind.

I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it.

Our way is straight and clear – the building up of a socialist democracy at home, with freedom and prosperity for all, and the maintenance of world peace and friendship with all nations abroad.

I have a lot of friends, but my biggest fear is loneliness. I miss my family in Mumbai, and my biggest nightmare every day is to go back home alone.

My best friend had a hockey scholarship at Ohio State, so I would get a couple of pairs at the beginning of the season and send them down to him. They practised two hours a day. He’d skate in them for three weeks then ship them back.

Having a friend to listen to your problems and discuss them with you is the beginning of finding a solution.

When you are down and out something always turns up – and it is usually the noses of your friends.