Stars are phoenixes, rising from their own ashes.

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.

Waves in an ocean remind us that just as they come and go, we too will. What matters is did we make a good splash before leaving?

May all you affirm and believe be given the opportunity to manifest - day by day.

I always found something strangely paternal about the director-actor relationship. Actors want so much approval.

-But I've just noticed that my mind is asleep.

Whether we realise it or not, most of us define ourselves by opposing rather than by favouring something or someone. To put it another way, it is easier to react than to act.

If the laborer gets no more than the wages which his employer pays him, he is cheated, he cheats himself.

And the Ring is so heavy, Sam. I begin to see it in my mind all the time, like a great wheel of fire.

One couldn't spend one's entire life waiting for life to start.

No matter where you from, there's ghettos all over the place.

What kills me is that everybody thinks I like Jazz.