Any civilization that doesn't develop space travel dies.

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.

Find your gift, the thing you were created for, the thing that inspires you and the thing you are fond of doing, and the thing you are doing better than others

Leadership grows like tall trees. It needs both toughness and flexibility - toughness for accountability - flexibility to adapt changes with a compassionate & caring heart for self and others.

The Republican leadership thinks the best way to avoid losing elections is to let the Democrats win every controversial issue.

Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.

A broken life in the hands of God is ripe for blessing.

His ignorance covers the world like a blanket, and there's scarcely a hole in it anywhere.

The best way to learn is to do; the worst way to teach is to talk.

In the end, we decide if we're remembered for what happened to us or for what we did with it.

This is the sorcery of literature. We are healed by our stories.

It's not how high we jump off our feet in church, it's what we do with them when we hit the ground!