The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

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.

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.

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

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

The great lie that science has given us is that reality is material.

I had witnessed the sort of atrocities during the war that threaten to steal a man's soul.

Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

You can't teach anybody anything, only make them realize the answers are already inside them.

We haven't any and you're too young.

I love home. I'd rather be at home than anywhere else.

We need to push ourselves to make as many reductions as possible in our own energy use first - and that takes time. But we must do this quickly - the climate will not wait for us.

All my friends went to the Madonna concert when I was in, maybe, the 9th grade, and my mother refused to let me go.

I have as much artistic freedom in my television work as I have in my films.

Life and business are rather simple after all-to make a success of either, you've got to hang on to the knack of putting yourself into the other person's place.