If you have a beating heart, that's good enough.

Ten long trips around the sun since I last saw that smile, but only joy and thankfulness that on a tiny world in the vastness, for a couple of moments in the immensity of time, we were one.

A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.

If you are searching for sacred knowledge and not just a palliative for your fears, then you will train yourself to be a good skeptic.

And what greater might do we possess as human beings than our capacity to question and to learn?

Carl did not want to believe. He wanted to know.

I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

We smoked the way other American families would have wine with dinner. For us, it was our sacrament. It was something that made a great life sweeter in every possible way.

Interviewer: "Didn't [Sagan] want to believe?" Druyan: "He didn't want to believe. He wanted to know.

Science is nothing more than a neverending search for the truth.

Carl took on the military-industrial complex. He campaigned around the world for an end to the production of weapons of mass destruction. To him it was a perversion of science.

You'll never experience the joy and tenderness of a lifelong love unless you fight for it.

If you are causing trouble, look for allies, always.

What if happiness is a choice?

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Drank a lot of take home pay.

It's so much of what art and creativity are, being able to confront your own demons. If you can do that, you can get through just about everything.

The current health crisis, however, is a little more the work of the evil empire. We were told, we were assured, that the more meat and dairy and poultry we ate, the healthier we'd be

In 2003, the value of Airbuss orders was more than twice as much as Boeings.

The whole life lies in the verb seeing.