“When we look up at night and view the stars, everything we see is shinning because of distant nuclear fusion.”

Where we have strong emotions, we’re liable to fool ourselves.

Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another.

For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.

An atheist is someone who is certain that God does not exist, someone who has compelling evidence against the existence of God.

The only thing we’ve found that makes the emptiness bearable, is each other.

Exploration is in our nature. We began as wanderers, and we are wanderers still. We have lingered long enough on the shores of the cosmic ocean. We are ready at last to set sail for the stars.

If it can be destroyed by the truth, it deserves to be destroyed by the truth.

Your god is too small for my universe.

A galaxy is composed of gas and dust and stars – billions upon billions of stars. Every star may be a sun to someone.

One of the great commandments of science is: Mistrust arguments from authority.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

I don’t want to believe. I want to know.

If we ruin the earth, there is no place else to go.

The significance of our lives and our fragile planet is then determined only by our own wisdom and courage.

All civilizations become either spacefaring or extinct.

If we continue to accumulate only power and not wisdom, we will surely destroy ourselves.

The dawn is not distant, nor is the night starless; love is eternal.

Robin is one of the most native and democratic of our birds; he is one of the family, and seems much nearer to us than those rare, exotic visitants, as the orchard starling or rose-breasted grossbeak, with their distant, high-bred ways.

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

If we fail to act soon, the scars of a major nuclear disaster will mark our immediate and distant future.

Instead of striving towards some distant goal that you will never reach, I invite you to stop and ask: How am I avoiding the enlightenment that is already present in each moment? How am I seeing separation where it doesn’t exist?

I feel. Even if I am distant at times and seem as if I do not want to be with you, it is only because this scares me, too.

I love the sound of the distant bugle call in the countryside in early morning I love to be pushed in busy crowds I love the sound of gongs and trumpets along the streets I love circus performances I even wish to die in this moment of glorious encounter.