Frederick Douglas taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path.

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.

In the end all the puzzles of your life will be solved, until then... laugh at the scepticism, live for the moment and remember everything happens for a reason.

What beauty is, I know not, though it adheres to many things.

We Bosniaks would for sure fight for integrity of Bosnia.

To love means to give, and to give means to build, while to hate is to destroy.

I think marriage and athletes is a bad combination.

If she drinks beer, she's a keeper.

My spirits infallibly rise in proportion to the outward dreariness. Give me the ocean, the desert, or the wilderness!

I think the greatest thing in the world is to believe in people.

Thoughts can be revised. Deeds cannot.

I've only paid lip service to a spiritual life.