The Hindu religion is the only of the World's great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes an immense, indeed an infinite, number of deaths and rebirths.

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe that utterly dwarfs — in time, in space, and in potential — the tidy anthropocentric proscenium of our ancestors.

For all our failings, despite our limitations and fallibilities, we humans are capable of greatness.

To live in the hearts of others is to never die in those we leave behind.

Even through your hardest days, remember we are all made of stardust.

The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five.