If you meet somebody who says he or she has never dreamed of flying, I don't believe you. I mean, they're lying.

Everyone you will ever meet knows something you don't.

We are just a speck, on a speck, orbiting a speck, in the corner of a speck, in the middle of nowhere.

To leave the world better than you found it, sometimes you have to pick up other people's trash.

Science is the best idea humans have ever had. The more people who embrace that idea, the better.

You and I are made of stardust. We are the stuff of exploded stars. We are therefore, at least 1 way that the Universe knows itself. That, to me, is astonishing.

There's nothing I believe in more strongly than getting young people interested in science and engineering, for a better tomorrow, for all humankind.

I speak with dogs frequently. They don't really talk, but I feel they're communicating.

The natural world is a package deal; you don't get to select which facts you like and which you don't.

The more you find out about the world, the more opportunities there are to laugh at it.

Science is the best thing humans beings have ever come up with. And if it isn't, science will fix it.

To leave, after all, was not the same as being left.

Any goal, no matter what size, can be achieved if it is tackled with courage, initiative, perseverance, and integrity.

The golden sunshine of Italy congealed into tears. Here's to alcoholic brotherhood ... much more suited to the frail human soul, if any, than any other sort.

People in Nevada know me from the street to the ring to the Senate chambers. I've never had to prove my manhood to anyone.

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

I always feel like I'm forgetting things.

Whenever I am sent a new book on the lively arts, the first thing I do is look for myself in the index.

In business it's about people. It's about relationships.

A monk is not forbidden to marry, but if he takes a wife she becomes a monk with the same powers and privileges and occupies the same social position as her husband.

If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.