An organism at war with itself is doomed.

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.

Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.

Dispute not with her: she is lunatic.

Life is finite, so focus on your purpose and do what is important.

The moment you can visualize being free from the things that hold you back, you have indeed begun to set yourself free

But now it was spring again, and spring was almost unbearable for sensitive hearts. It drove creation to its utmost limits, it wafted its spice-laden breath even into the nostrils of the innocent.

It is our feelings that guide us and they can never lead us wrong

I have always considered marriage as the most interesting event of one's life, the foundation of happiness or misery.

Count Basie practically adopted me at 13. We became closer and closer and I ended up conducting for him and Sinatra.

I was never pretty, never really popular. I was lanky and funny looking.

I have a lot of actors I want to work with; Brad Pitt, Keanu Reeves, and Uma Thurman.