We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.

Ultimately, we actually all belong to only one tribe, to Earthlings.

The story of humans is the story of ideas that shine light into dark corners.

SETI is a mirror, a mirror that can show ourselves from an extraordinary perspective and can help to trivialize the differences among us.

We don't know how to identify intelligence over interstellar distances, so what we do instead is use technology for a proxy.

Earlier generations of stars in the galaxy could well have had planets. But really, there was only hydrogen and helium to work with, so they'd all be gas giants and not small, rocky planets.

I totally allow myselfto feel every emotion, whatever it isand I observe itfrom my inner spaceof love and silence.

Almsgiving leaves a man just where he was before. Aid restores him to society as an individual worthy of all respect and not as a man with a grievance.

The difference between me as Brian Warner or Marilyn Manson is just words. Same personality, sensibility, sense of humor, behavior. He is me.

You're an original, an individual, a masterpiece. Celebrate that; don't let your uniqueness make you shy. Don't be someone other than the wonder you are. Every star is important to the sky.

'And how, who am I? I will remember, if I can! I'm determined to do it!' But being determined didn't help much.

Whatever attitude we bring into a situation will be multiplied

Life is too short to sleep it all away!

You marry at the level of your own psychological health.

The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us.

Without immersion in God's words, our prayers may not be merely limited and shallow but also untethered from reality.