I flush with heaving passion's strange delight, Yet find contentment lost in appetite.

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!

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

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.

Remember that we are not gods who can fashion events to our desires. We are mere mortals who must learn not to contend with life but to yield to it.

"Honesty" without compassion and understanding is not honesty but subtle hostility.

Whoever I had become had to die.

No matter how late it is, when I get home, I take the time to clean and moisturize my face.

Going to university is only one avenue to gain knowledge. There are others. A degree isn't insurance against ignorance.

When you're a regular on your show, that's your family. When people come in and out, it doesn't mean that you don't embrace them, but they have to leave.

Put your talent into your work, but your genius into your life.

I loved the scent of the wallflowers in the evening.

Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.

Show as much interest in what your children tell you as they have in telling you.