The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster.

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.

Okay, even if we disagree on that point, we still need to keep living our lives, don't we?...

A person who knows spiritual principles will walk confidently in God’s path, to fulfil what God has already planned to do

Life is an adventure. No-one knows if you can do it but yourself. Set a high bar.

Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don't do that by sitting around wondering about yourself.

Oh yes. I'm an actor, so I just learn my lines, and show up and do it. I gave it a little bit of thought.

I think my life has everything, you know; it has comedy, has drama, has action.

Unified party control of the organs of government has proved no panacea.

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

To discern what weaknesses and faults separate you from God, you must enter into your own inward ground and then confront yourself.