If the universe is anything, it should be fun.

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

Dinosaurs are extinct today because they lacked opposable thumbs and the brainpower to build a space program.

Unlike what you may be told in other sectors of life, when observing the universe, size does matter, which often leads to polite ‘telescope envy’ at gatherings of amateur astronomers.

With love that knew no fear, the Singer caught his torment, wrapped it all in song and gave it back to him as peace.

The more painful it is, tragically, the more you do learn, though, that's the good part.

You take a guy like George Clooney who goes out there to Darfur, and gets things done! That's magical. He's done a great thing.

Nothing old is ever reborn, but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been [born], will always reappear in a new form.

Make up stories until you find one you can live with.

My errors are by now natural and incorrigible; but the good that worthy men do the public by making themselves imitable, I shall perhaps do by making myself evitable.

There are three points of view to everything - mine, yours, and the truth.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

We are all important, but we are not indispensable.

I think love is serious. It's like an invention: sometimes it lies deep down inside you, great and quiet--and at other times it racks you and keeps you from sleeping.