It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

God's existence cannot be deduced by reason alone.

With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

Simpler explanations are, other things being equal, generally better than more complex ones.

When you have two competing theories that make exactly the same predictions, the simpler one is the better.

Never increase, beyond what is necessary, the number of entities required to explain anything.

No more things should be presumed to exist than are absolutely necessary.

Entities are not to be multiplied beyond necessity.

If you want to be a doormat you have to lay yourself down first.

Beware of leaders who prefer controlling 100 % of nothing over sharing a fortune.

Life's too short to build something nobody wants.

Former president George W. Bush released his new memoir. By the way, 'memoir' is just a fancy word for 'a bunch of stuff that happened to me.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Atheism is the last word of theism

Culture drives great results.

I thought I was going to make crazy cartoons for the rest of my life. I didn't think I'd ever get paid for it, didn't think I drew well enough, but I knew it made me happy.

You fall out of your mother's womb, you crawl across open country under fire, and drop into your grave.

The first step in our walk of faith is to stop our own works and rest in God's love, wisdom and power.