We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

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.

Cops and robbers resemble each other, so there's not a lot to learn in terms of learning the logistics of committing the crime or investigating the crime.

Since 2010, America has put more people back to work than Europe, Japan, and all advanced economies combined.

Consider The lilies of the field whose bloom is brief:-- We are as they; Like them we fade away As doth a leaf.

Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.

I always know what's happening on the court. I see a situation occur, and I respond.

The Negro needs the white man to free him from his fears. The white man needs the Negro to free him from his guilt.

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

I ate his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti

New friends may be poems but old friends are alphabets. Don't forget the alphabets because you will need them to read the poems.

When you're young, you kind of take yourself seriously, and you think, like, "People need to see what I can do." And it's so laughable, especially with actors.