A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism.

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.

We started out as five people whose lives just happened to cross paths. By the end of the summer we were family

You can only achieve GREATNESS when you pursue the things others are not willing to SACRIFICE for.

Nothing is forever...nothing lasts.

This seems to me a philosophical question, and therefore irrelevant, question. A poet's destiny is to love.

It's sad when someone you know becomes someone you knew.

Shyness is I-ness. Shyness is really wondering if you have other people's approval.

Ballet is such a disciplined craft and it has given me a good grounding.

Have to love the preemptive guilt trip! I will be visiting home for Mother's Day. Hoping for minimal "baby cannon" talk, but realistically that's going to be a big part of the day.

I couldn't help thinking about my dream, with Annabeth crumpled and lifeless in Luke's arms. Here I was rescuing baby monsters, but I couldn't save my friend.

A thing's innate disposition does not lie.