There is nothing more mysterious than destiny - of a person, of our species, of our planet, or of the universe itself.

This is the greatest discovery of the scientific enterprise: You take hydrogen gas, and you leave it alone, and it turns into rosebuds, giraffes and humans.

The universe shivers with wonder in the depths of the human.

Four billion years ago the planet Earth was molten rock; now it sings opera!

When humans find themselves surrounded by nothing but objects, the response is always one of loneliness.

Embrace your death. . . . Cherish your awareness of death as a gift from the universe.

If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.

The universe is an inexhaustible celebration of ultimate mystery!

By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

The earth was once molten rock and now sings operas.

All professions, all work, all activity in the human world finds its essential meaning in the context of a people's cosmic story.

Don’t feel ashamed of working hard! Believe that things will change.

He liked the way her smile infected him and infused a bit of heat into his cold bones—a warmth missing until he'd opened the door to her flower shop.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

[American Citizenship] captures the enduring idea that this country only works when we accept certain obligations to one another and to future generations

It is our duty and our privilege to exhaust our lives for Jesus. We are not to be living specimens of men in fine preservation, but living sacrifices, whose lot is to be consumed

Youth is about the only thing worth having, and that is about the only thing youth has.

You live eighty years, and at best you get about six minutes of pure magic.

If all you do is make excuses, then that is how people see you. Make your strengths visible.

Do not quarrel with the world too soon; for, bad as it may be, it is the best we have to live in, here. If railing would have made it better, it would have been reformed long ago.

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current