"Observation: I can't see a thing. Conclusion: Dinosaurs."

"Books are like seeds. They can lie dormant for centuries and then flower in the most unpromising soil."

"Avoidable human misery is more often caused not so much by stupidity as by ignorance, particularly our ignorance about ourselves."

"We are star stuff which has taken its destiny into its own hands."

"The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars."

"Winners have the ability to step back from the canvas of their lives like an artist gaining perspective. They make their lives a work of art / an individual masterpiece."

"Relentless, repetitive self talk is what changes our self-image."

"You must welcome change as the rule but not as your ruler."

"Time and health are two precious assets that we don't recognize and appreciate until they have been depleted."

"Learn from the past, set vivid, detailed goals for the future, and live in the only moment of time over which you have any control: now."

"Goals provide the energy source that powers our lives. One of the best ways we can get the most from the energy we have is to focus it. That is what goals can do for us; concentrate our energy."

"Get excited and enthusiastic about you own dream. This excitement is like a forest fire - you can smell it, taste it, and see it from a mile away."

"Procrastination is the fear of success. People procrastinate because they are afraid of the success that they know will result if they move ahead now. Because success is heavy, carries a responsibility with it, it is much easier to procrastinate and live on the 'someday I'll' philosophy."

"Failure should be our teacher, not our undertaker. Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end. Failure is something we can avoid only by saying nothing, doing nothing, and being nothing."

"As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time."

"It's hard to kill a creature once it lets you see its consciousness."

"Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns."

"An organism at war with itself is doomed."

"There are no forbidden questions in science, no matters too sensitive or delicate to be probed, no sacred truths."

"Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves."

"If we long for our planet to be important, there is something we can do about it. We make our world significant by the courage of our questions and by the depth of our answers."

"Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze."

"There are wonders enough out there without our inventing any."

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and technology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

"It is said that men may not be the dreams of the god, but rather that the gods are the dreams of men."

"The visions we offer our children shape the future."

"The Cosmos is all that is or ever was or ever will be."

".. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that in glory and in triumph they could become the 'Momentary' masters of a 'Fraction' of a 'Dot'"

"We can't help it. Life looks for life."

"The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves - without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster."

"But I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything besides my brain, as tempting as that might be, is likely to get me into trouble."

"You could just as well say that an agnostic is a deeply religious person with at least a rudimentary knowledge of human fallibility."

"In the vastness of space and the immensity of time, it is my joy to share a planet and an epoch with Annie. [Dedication to Sagan's wife, Ann Druyan, in Cosmos]"

"You can't convince a believer of anything; for their belief is not based on evidence, it's based on a deep seated need to believe"

"Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works."

"The single life is not one I willingly chose for myself."

"To get it first is important - but more important is to get it right."

"Walking into a room filled with people you don't know but who know you brings out your worst vulnerabilities."

"When for so long you can't get a job for reasons that seem specious, you you finally do have it, you are constantly afraid of losing it."

"When I first anchored in 1970, I had never seen a woman anchor a news show."

"When I was a little girl in the 1950s, it would not have been possible for me to say, I want to be an anchorwoman when I grow up."

"Women were seldom given quality assignments or adequate air time."

"Texas was defined by its larger-than-life characters, particularly politicians."

"The bad news is that 50 people died in a hotel fire; the good news is that we got exclusive footage."

"The better the coverage, the more discriminating the viewer."

"The code of the road is, if there is anything to eat, eat; if there is a place to sit, sit; if there is a restroom, go."

"The idea of stardom was difficult to grasp. It was like being schizophrenic; there was her, the woman on television, and the real me."

"The latest wrinkle is on wrinkles. There is a widespread belief that women can't grow old in television news."

"The minute viewers callin or write about your looks, they were not listening to what you were saying."

"The most important event I covered was the Panama Canal debate, which dragged on for months."