Carl Edward Sagan Video

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Don't be afraid to see what you see.

If what you have done yesterday still looks big to you, you haven't done much today.

The world is made up of people who never quite get into the first team and who just miss the prizes at the flower show.

Anytime four New Yorkers get into a cab together without arguing, a bank robbery has just taken place.

Words were never invented to fully explain the peaceful aura that surrounds us when we are in communion with minds of the same thoughts.

If absolute power corrupts absolutely, does absolute powerlessness make you pure

Definition of rock journalism: People who can't write, doing interviews with people who can't think, in order to prepare articles for people who can't read

The simplest explanation is that it doesn't make sense.

Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It's the transition that's troublesome

In general we are least aware of what our minds do best.

Telling the future by looking at the past assumes that conditions remain constant. This is like driving a car by looking in the rearview mirror.

Kindness consists in loving people more than they deserve.

I am returning this otherwise good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and put your name at the top.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

Do a little more each day than you think you possibly can.