"We make our purpose."

"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."

"Success in life comes not from holding a good hand, but in playing a poor hand well."

"There are two primary choices in life: to accept conditions as they exist, or accept the responsibility for changing them."

"I don't want to believe. I want to know."

"The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself."

"I consider it an extremely dangerous doctrine, because the more likely we are to assume that the solution comes from the outside, the less likely we are to solve our problems ourselves."

"The nuclear arms race is like two sworn enemies standing waist deep in gasoline, one with three matches, the other with five."

"We are a way for the cosmos to know itself."

"Frederick Douglass taught that literacy is the path from slavery to freedom. There are many kinds of slavery and many kinds of freedom, but reading is still the path."

"The universe is a pretty big place. If it's just us, seems like an awful waste of space."

"We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good."

"We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever."

"It pays to keep an open mind, but not so open your brains fall out."

"Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence."

"For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."

"If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe."

"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff."

"Every one of us is, in the cosmic perspective, precious. If a human disagrees with you, let him live. In a hundred billion galaxies, you will not find another."

"Somewhere, something incredible is waiting to be known."

"A somebody was once a nobody who wanted to and did."

"The smallest deed is better than the greatest intention."

"I was a tough kid with the jeans, the concert shirt with the flannel over it, the comb in the back pocket and the feathered hair."

"Acting allows me to tell a lot of stories, you know start at the beginning, finish at the end, and tell everything in between. Modelling is just an image."