If your ego starts out, 'I am important, I am big, I am special,' you're in for some disappointments when you look around at what we've discovered about the universe. No, you're not big. No, you're not. You're small in time and in space. And you have this frail vessel called the human body that's limited on Earth.

Pressed into service means pressed out of shape.

The wealthy are always surrounded by hangers-on; science and art are as well.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

We must become the change we want to see.