The old appeals to racial, sexual and religious chauvinism to rabid nationalist fervor, are beginning not to work.

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.

Chirp of coward shouted in crowd, dare to speak but not to be known.

Her dreamy countenance infuriated me more than her words. I had seen that expression directed at me once upon a time.

If an actor knows how to milk a cow, I always know it will not be difficult to be in business with him.

A childish soul not inoculated with compulsory prayer is a soul open to any religious infection.

I have fun acting, and I want to do more of it, and I want to direct my own movie.

All souls can find the truth within.

Ever-newer waters flow on those who step into the same rivers.

Don't ask for love when you are not capable of giving it.

There’s nothing more fierce than the female, like the momma lion. Believe me, my wife is a good example.

Any idiot can get an airplane off the ground, but an aviator earns his keep by bringing it back anytime, anywhere, under any circumstances that man and God can dream up.