What distinguishes our species is thought. The cerebral cortex is in a way a liberation. We need no longer be trapped in the genetically inherited behavior patterns of lizards and baboons: territoriality and aggression and dominance hierarchies. We are each of us largely responsible for what gets put in to our brains. For what as adults we wind up caring for and knowing about. No longer at the mercy of the reptile brain we can change ourselves. Think of the possibilities.

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

We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged.

When you buy a used car, you kick the tires, you look at the odometer, you open up the hood. If you do not feel yourself an expert in automobile engines, you bring a friend who is. And you do this with something as unimportant as an automobile. But on the issues of the transcendent, of ethics, of morals, of the origins of the world, of the nature of human beings, on those issues should we not insist upon at least equally skeptical scrutiny?

In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie.

In all our searching, the only thing we've found that makes the emptiness bearable is each other.

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