When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

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!

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.

The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

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.

Aren't we all a bunch of weirdos?

To Move from Woe to Wow with an Unhappy Customer. . . Solve the Problem!•

I think we now know the limits also of intelligence and rhetoric.

Being a writer-director can sometimes make you incredibly blinkered.

Our mandate is to be a nation of laws. And the Supreme Court is the place where we look to safeguard our civil rights and our individual liberties.

I don't know where to put whales. I'm sticking them here, but I don't have any reason for it.

I know only two words of American slang, 'swell' and 'lousy'. I think 'swell' is lousy, but 'lousy' is swell.

I believe that everybody comes from pain and a certain amount of dysfunction.

For grief is felt not so much for the want of what we have never known, as for the loss of that to which we have been long accustomed.

In this knowledge-worker age, it's now increasingly tied to doing well in school so you can get into better grad schools so you can get better jobs - so the pressure to do well is really high.