Wisdom tolerates blustered opinions, the better to dismiss them later with discovery.

The same ratios that govern music give laws to optics and to the movement of the heavens as well. Simple. Elegant. Predictable.

Each new scientific fact gives rise to new uncertainties, and every pattern of starlight holds both a record and a prophecy.

It is one of the great blessings of youth, this guiltlessness, the source of gentle sleep and peaceful days.

It is only the sudden and unpredictable appearance of comets that spoils the immutable celestial sphere.

The basis of English law is as simple as this: If you would know the future’s shape, look to the past.

Jesus would pray to himself and cry. I often do the same.

Daring also means to act, however, and if you are not willing to act, then you have already lost the game.

Having it all is easy if youre willing to work for it

I feel that it is our moral obligation to stand and to be courageous with these families, and particularly Cindy, that have become the conscience of this nation.

Order is Heaven's first law; and this confess, Some are and must be greater than the rest.

My grandpa taught me how to live off the land.

The audience loves to figure things out. They love it when a performer leaves a trail of bread crumbs for them, and they get to participate in the comedy.

I think the Earth and everything around it is connected - the sky and the planets and the stars and everything else we see as a mystery.

It's not every day people fly you to New York for auditions.

The act of writing itself is done in secret, like masturbation.