The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed.

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.

I have twenty countries in my memory and trail in my soul the colors of one hundred cities.

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.

Then you hold life like a face between your palms, a plain face, no charming smile, no violet eyes, and you say, yes, I will take you I will love you, again.

And if the New Testament were a collection of secular writings, their authenticity would generally be regarded as beyond all doubt

I sing God's music because it makes me feel free. It gives me hope. With the blues, when you finish, you still have the blues.

I don't think pain is a prerequisite for growth, but on the other hand, most of us choose very painful ways to learn.

I think that's what I love about writing, is the ability to try to, in a sense, take a vacation from yourself and try to enter the sensibility of another time, another character, another place.

Do not be obsessed by egotism, imagining that you are the cause of action, everything is due to God.

Even from the very beginning, I didn't put any money in the stock market.

Friendly counsel cuts off many foes.