“We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands.”

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.

Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns.

You are worth about 3 dollars worth in chemicals.

We live on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

The visions we offer our children shape the future.

Nature is unsentimental. Death is built in.

Not explaining science seems to me perverse. When you’re in love, you want to tell the world.

This place where you are right now, God circled on a map for you.

Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.

I never cared about money. I’m not destined to be a rich woman. I’m destined to be a woman who makes a lot of money and never has any. I’ve made millions and millions and millions of dollars and I just spend it.

Your life fell apart for a reason. Trust now, give space for your greater destiny.

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.

That great lover of peace, a man of giant stature who moulded, as few other men have done, the destinies of his age.