To read is to voyage through time.

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.

Everything in this world happens with a purpose. You are born in this world with a purpose, you are chosen by purpose.

He took her hand. If it were in my power, I would take you to that place from your movie, over the rainbow where dreams come true. But all I can offer is myself, and I'm not going anywhere.

They learned no compassion from their own anguish. Thus their suffering was wasted.

The eyes are the true reflection of a man's age and sensibilities.

What I learned from my father is to think big.

a person who was clever ought to be clever enough not to be unjust or deliberately unkind to anyone.

We get up in the morning. We do our best. Nothing else matters.

But after Mr. Evers got shot a week ago, lot a colored folk is frustrated in this town. Especially the younger ones, who ain't built up a callus yet.

Fortunately, Paul is much more interesting than most of his interpreters, myself included.

You write a lot of bad songs before you write good ones. It takes time!