It's everywhere, really. It's between the galaxies. It is in this room. We believe that everywhere that you have space, empty space, that you cannot avoid having some of this dark energy.

Dark energy is incredibly strange, but actually it makes sense to me that it went unnoticed, because dark energy has no effect on daily life, or even inside our solar system.

We know there is gravity because apples fall from trees. We can observe gravity in daily life. If we could throw an apple to the edge of the universe, we would observe it accelerating.

We're really just the frosting on a cake and we don't know what's inside the cake.

I think the mystery of what's out there in the universe is just very compelling.

Your chemistry high school teacher lied to you when they told you that there was such a thing as a vacuum, that you could take space and move every particle out of it.

The essence of faith is being satisfied with all that God is for us in Jesus.

Reached only by boat, seaplane and, with less surety, telephone-this is Fire Island, a pile of sand beneath a pile of people.

I'm not against people having new cars. I'm against them having you. We spend a tremendous amount impressing somebody at the stoplight who we'll never meet. It makes you broke and keeps you broke.

Meditate and bath in the light of eternity. Nothing else is worthwhile.

If any of you have a desire to be mediocre, you will probably find that you have already achieved your ambition.

I made the decision long ago that to be afraid would be to diminish my life.

I think some musicians can almost forget that the stage is something to do something on, even if that thing is standing still.

Nobody can predict the future; the idea is to have a firm grasp of the present.

Rock saved me. You can break drums and scream out loud - if you do that in the street you get arrested.