People get a lot out of being religious. They have strong senses of community and mutual support. So, what's not to love [there]?

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 find prosperity in life, help others to prosper.

I found a new breed of people, 'Facebook Man' - Comments on anything, but don't even have a single own Status post!!!

The nerves, the anxiety, the pressure, it's all gone. Being in his arms took it all away.

Never share you secret with a married person for the partner will get to hear of it.

All knowledge, we feel, must be built up upon our instinctive beliefs; and if these are rejected, nothing is left.

I love only one girl, one in every town.

Grief drives men into habits of serious reflection, sharpens the understanding, and softens the heart

My parents immigrated from Italy and spent 40 days and 40 stinking nights on a boat so we didn't have to eat things like gizzards.

I am Todd Hewitt, I think to myself with my eyes closed. I am twelve years and twelve months old. I live in Prentisstown on New World. I will be a man in one month’s time exactly.

I didn't even know how to shave at 15.