I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

Awe is the beginning of wisdom. Awe is the beginning of education.

I'm sorry, but I can't make a movie with the blonde from 'ER' who is starring in every single bad romantic comedy.

Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.

Do not confuse beauty with beautiful. Beautiful is a human judgment. Beauty is All. The difference is everything.

I'll put it to you this way: I never, ever think about the things that I get involved with on a macro means-to-an-ends scale.

There is no end to the beauty for the person who is aware. Even the cracks between the sidewalk contain geometric patterns of amazing beauty.