When you make the finding yourself - even if you're the last person on Earth to see the light - you'll never forget it.

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.

Essentially, meditation means to experientally realize that you are not an individual bubble - you are a universe.

The best Christmas present you can give to your dead grandfather is not showing up until Easter. And telling no one about it. Especially not yourself.

I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.

My kids don't have a trust fund, they have a debt fund. And when I die, they're $4 million in the hole.

Middle age is when you still believe you'll feel better in the morning.

The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.

In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.

What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.

My kids were completely out of control, while I was working fifteen hours a day plus weekends. I screamed a lot, something I'm not particularly proud of, but it was that or firearms.

The way to perfection is through a series of disgusts