All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans.

The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human.

Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!

When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.

If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.

The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.

Humans enter this world and awaken to a simple truth: We must find our story with this great epic of being.

One Need activates hundreds of Desires. Find long lasting happiness and fulfillment by knowing your Personality Needs instead of following your desires.

No matter who you are, or what side of the tracks society thinks you are from, if you wake up wanting to write, then do what you must to write.

Keep hoping. Be patient and diligent. Never give up. Hold on to your faith. God helps us when we show Him that we are willing to help ourselves.

The level of communication you can achieve with an infant is really profound.

Anybody else wanna pee their pants and cry for mommy?

The music itself could never take the place of my own passion in life.

You can't change a man, no-ways. By the time his mummy turns him loose and he takes up with some innocent woman and marries her, he's what he is.

I'm always learning when I'm surrounded by great people. In every experience, I feel like I'm learning. I'm not like, "Oh good. I'm done! I don't have to learn anymore."

Sometimes the ideas that mean the most to you will feel true long before you can quite formulate them or justify them.

Dazed and disoriented, I looked up from the bright red blood pulsing out of my arm - into the fevered eyes of the six suddenly ravenous vampires.