We are all star stuff.

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.

I have a face for radio and a voice for writing.

If you don’t believe in virtues and principles, then you are not building your life on anything.

I love my own kind—womankind.

To obtain an assured favorable response from people, it is better to offer them something for their stomachs instead of their brains.

In business courtesy and efficiency have a symbiotic relationship.

Criticism is like many other things, it drags along after what has already been said and doesn't get out of its rut.

All books will become light in proportion as you find light in them.

By the way, I saved Moiraine. Chew on that as you try to decide which of the two of us is winning." -Mat

The Last Airbender is an agonizing experience in every category I can think of and others still waiting to be invented.

Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle; I am no traitor's uncle, and that word "grace" In an ungracious mouth is but profane.