Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff.

Imagination will often carry us to worlds that never were. But without it we go nowhere.

I don't want to believe. I want to know.

The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence.

The brain is like a muscle. When it is in use we feel very good. Understanding is joyous.

We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

You have to know the past to understand the present.

Having extreme physical beauty presented a problem similar to being rich: it was difficult to know if people loved you for the person you were inside.

The way a man's mind runs is the way he is sure to go.

What is behind your eyes holds more power than what is in front of them.

My first major role was in a play called Through the Leaves.

Love is supposed to bring you peace and happiness. If you are not feeling this in a relationship, you are living an illusion.

I don't like grouper fish. Well, they're okay. They hang around star fish. Because they're grouper fish.

Technique is something that you use if you need it. Otherwise, to hell with it.

Of course it was impossible to connect the dots looking forward when I was in college. But it was very, very clear looking backwards 10 years later.

A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering.

Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object.