...long before the child learns to talk properly-and long before it learns to think philosophically-the world will have become a habit. A pity, if you ask me.

There are five billion people living on this planet. But you fall in love with one particular person, and you won't swap her for any other.

It takes billions of years to create a human being. And it takes only a few seconds to die.

Then you have a big problem, because a human is a thinking animal. If you don't think, you're not really a human.

When we gaze at a star in the Milky Way which is 50,000 light-years away from our sun, we are looking back 50,000 years in time." "The idea is much too big for my little head." "The only way we can look out into space, then, is to look back in time. We can never know what the universe is like now. We only know what it was like then. When we look up at a star that is thousands of light-years away, we are really traveling thousands of years back in the history of space.

Yes, we too are stardust.

People are, generally speaking, either dead certain or totally indifferent.