Your god is too small for my universe.

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.

The source and center of all man's creative power... is his power of making images, or the power of imagination.

I get the most joy in life out of music.

Dirksen's Three Laws of Politics: 1. Get elected. 2. Get re-elected. 3. Don't get mad, get even.

There is nothing better than humor to keep a marriage going.

I like taking photographs, because I like life. And I like photographing people best of all, because most of all I love humanity.

See, well ya see, the thing is, he should have caught that ball. But the ball is bigger than his hands.

Hope deceives more men than cunning does.

If you dont educate your kids... I will.

I think literature is somehow both a fantasy and a reality we should all get back to.

Moscow has an energy. Which is important. The city and the people all have an energy. It's quite different from what everybody knows in Los Angeles, but it has an energy. People have an energy.