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

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.

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 we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.

I believe one would write better if the climate were bad. If there were a lot of wind and storms for example...

The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight reflects the moon.

If customer ignorance is a profit centre for you, you're in trouble.

Winter dressing is all about having chic outerwear.

All creative art is magic, is evocation of the unseen in forms persuasive, enlightening, familiar and surprising.

Nonviolence is a plant of slow growth, it grows imperceptibly but surely.

Our duty as Christians is always to keep heaven in our eye and earth under our feet.

There is nothing I want but your Presence. In friendship, time dissolves.

I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a good film composer.

I may be the wrong person for my life.