We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of matter.

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.

They think that if they had more belief they would pray more, so keep them lacking. Never let them realize that the opposite is true: If they prayed more, they would have more belief.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

Sacred blessings and divine opportunities appear in your life disguised as unforeseen changes and challenging circumstances.

Our thoughts create our world.

Love is all about... whistles.

I did a short film called 'Disco' and won an award for Best Supporting Actor at an indie film festival, and that was nice. Hopefully there's lots more to come.

When it does not exist, design it.

I had teachers who I could tell didn't want to be there. And I just couldn't get inspired by someone who didn't want to be there.

The little things that made up the fabric of the first six years of my life were suddenly ripped away, and I didn't have anyone around me who loved me. Not one single person.

Our moral efforts are too feeble and falsely motivated to ever merit salvation.