...for a long time I wanted to become a theologian... now, however, behold how through my efforts God is being debated in astronomy.

I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the masses.

Science is the process of thinking God's thoughts after Him.

Where there is matter, there is geometry.

Why are things as they are and not otherwise?

Geometry is the archetype of the beauty of the world.

Once miracles are admitted, every scientific explanation is out of the question.

I had the intention of becoming a theologian...but now I see how God is, by my endeavors, also glorified in astronomy, for 'the heavens declare the glory of God.'

Since we astronomers are priests of the highest God in regard to the book of nature, it befits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God.

Truth is the daughter of time, and I feel no shame in being her midwife.

My greatest desire is that I may perceive the God whom I find everywhere in the external world, in like manner also within and inside myself.

Art is the proper task of life.

Information is like water. It finds its way to all the wrong places.

And then I carefully sealed away my heart...

Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dog.

People think the blues is sad. They hear people moaning and such. That's not the blues. That's just somebody singing slow...The blues is about truth-telling.

If you're too in your head and you're not in the moment, life passes you by.

Some people receive medication in order to properly deliver films.

The gratification of a thoughtless pleasure soon evaporates; the pleasure of a gratifying thought never ends.

You may be on land, yet not in a garden.

I don't know where you have to go or what you have to do, but I'll wait for you, John. Every bit of my heart belongs to you, whether you ask for it or not.