"The world is so exquisite with so much love and moral depth, that there is no reason to deceive ourselves with pretty stories for which there's little good evidence. Far better it seems to me, in our vulnerability, is to look death in the eye and to be grateful every day for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides."
"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."
"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 small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love."
"A celibate clergy is an especially good idea, because it tends to suppress any hereditary propensity toward fanaticism."
"I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves."