If it takes a little myth and ritual to get us through a night that seems endless, who among us cannot sympathize and understand?

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.

Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck.

Me would like an invisibility cloak to get the hell out of this mess.

Apathy sets in when our passion for the future is miscarried.

Yes, I am old enough to grow a beard actually. So ner-ner-ner-ner

Wealth is no mark of God’s favor. Poverty is no mark of God’s displeasure.

To be a Jew means always being with the oppressed and never the oppressors.

Parents have the ability to screen their children's Internet access at home.

Every joke is either taken by ads or The Simpsons. It's all about being able to get your ideas out into the universe.

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

People hate cardio. I hate cardio. But pick the five top songs that you love. Do your cardio during these songs, and you're done. I'd say 95 percent of the time you don't even know you just did it.