Be grateful everyday for the brief but magnificent opportunity that life provides.

If we say that God has always been, why not save a step and conclude that the universe has always been?

Real patriots ask questions.

All inquiries carry with them some element of risk.

There are huge advertising budgets only when there's no difference between the products. If the products really were different, people would buy the one that's better. Advertising teaches people not to trust their judgment. Advertising teaches people to be stupid.

We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands. The loom of time and space works the most astonishing transformations of matter.

The cosmic calendar compresses the local history of the universe into a single year. If the universe began on January 1st it was not until May that the Milky Way formed. Other planetary systems may have appeared in June, July and August, but our Sun and Earth not until mid-September. Life arose soon after. We humans appear on the cosmic calendar so recently that our recorded history occupies only the last few seconds of the last minute of December 31st.