By looking far out into space we are also looking far back into time, back toward the horizon of the universe, back toward the epoch of the Big Bang.

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.

If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.

There are many hypotheses in science which are wrong. That’s perfectly all right: it’s the aperture to finding out what’s right. Science is a self-correcting process.

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

And you are made of a hundred trillion cells. We are, each of us, a multitude.

The beauty of a living thing is not the atoms that go into it, but the way those atoms are put together.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars - billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

We are a way for the cosmos to know itself.

It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.

When you have wings of love to fly, why do you sit in a prison and cry?

Procrastination is the kidnapper of souls, and the recruiting-officer of Hell.

Feelings are memories. Memories are also feelings.

Every one knew he could foretell wars and famines, though that was not so hard, for there was always a war, and generally a famine somewhere.

There is a little boy inside the man who is my brother... Oh, how I hated that little boy. And how I love him too.

I love being free enough that I can be so intimate with people, and that people are free enough that we can all be intimate with each other!

Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit.

The air is like a butterfly With frail blue wings. The happy earth looks at the sky And sings.

When a good change is flowing towards you, don't stand like the river stones before it!

After I exhausted the blues thing, I got into jazz.