The method of science, as stodgy and grumpy as it may seem, is far more important than the findings of science.

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.

To create abundance in life, travel and touch everyone you meet with your infinite love.

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

A bad habit is only a habit until you can observe it, then it's a choice you make

You have to see your unimportance before you can see your importance and your significance to the world.

Love involves a peculiar unfathomable combination of understanding and misunderstanding.

I have to say I've made many mistakes, and been humbled many, many times. But you know what? It's never too late to learn.

I'm fine." It's a lie. I am not fine. My head is a symphony of pain, a sadistic master maestro conducting an opus of excruciating, devastating perfecting.

Yeah, I'm not into sports. If someone told me I had athlete's foot, I'd say that's not my foot!

I am not so lost in lexicography as to forget that words are the daughters of earth, and that things are the sons of heaven.