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.

Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.

What we know is a drop, what we don't know is an ocean.

Atheism is so senseless. When I look at the solar system, I see the earth at the right distance from the sun to receive the proper amounts of heat and light. This did not happen by chance.

If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants.

Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation

In the absence of any other proof, the thumb alone would convince me of God's existence.

Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

Every action has an equal and opposite reaction

All my discoveries have been made in answer to prayer.

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

War can only be abolished through war, and in order to get rid of the gun it is necessary to take up the gun.

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

You can’t control what other people think about your art. Think about the part of yourself that you can control, which is your ability to be kind and loving and creative.

I maintain that the House is bound by the Constitution to receive the petitions; after which, it will take such method of deciding upon them as reason and principle shall dictate.

It's amazing, it doesn't feel like it has been 10 years since retirement.

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul our own nest

Since I was a kid, I've wanted to do sports for a living. In the beginning, I played a lot of soccer, but in the end I chose tennis. I love sports in general ... But tennis is my passion.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme; to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

The legislation of the government has been directed rather to the protection of the rights of money and property than to the best good of the citizen.

I do not like sports, unless you consider treating all humankind with love and respect a sport.