We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

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.

I mean Jesus never asked a man to do a damn thing that Jesus didn’t do.

If we have no mercy toward others, that is one proof that we have never experienced God’s mercy.

Well, I think I’m a feminist, just by the virtue of the fact that I believe in equal rights for everyone.

'Do you know,' he asked in a delicious accent, 'what Dom Pérignon said after inventing champagne?' 'No?' I said. 'He called out to his fellow monks, 'Come quickly: I am tasting the stars!'

Comedy has always been more challenging for me than drama.

The first expression of religion was the dance, and the first motive of the dance was religion.

MTV has always been about redefining itself.

Young actors are serious about their work and don't take any time out from it. I'm very serious about my work; there are probably only two films I've done where I had a really good time.

I love nerdy work. I love writing notes. I try to go back, as much as I can, to feed what happens and why they do what they do.

The public think the politicians don't know or care about their lives; and the politicians feel misunderstood.