All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands before our eyes and cry that it is dark.
Swami Vivekananda

We will build new ships to carry man forward into the universe, to gain a new foothold on the moon and to prepare for new journeys to the worlds beyond our own.
George W. Bush

Humor is just another defense against the universe.
Mel Brooks

Man, unlike anything organic or inorganic in the universe, grows beyond his work, walks up the stairs of his concepts, emerges ahead of his accomplishments.
John Steinbeck

Technology is destructive only in the hands of people who do not realize that they are one and the same process as the universe.
Alan Watts

The myths underlying our culture and underlying our common sense have not taught us to feel identical with the universe, but only parts of it, only in it, only confronting it - aliens.
Alan Watts

Things are as they are. Looking out into it the universe at night, we make no comparisons between right and wrong stars, nor between well and badly arranged constellations.
Alan Watts

In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all.
Alan Watts

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.
Alan Watts

You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
Alan Watts

The style of God venerated in the church, mosque, or synagogue seems completely different from the style of the natural universe.
Alan Watts

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James A. Baldwin

We can allow satellites, planets, suns, universe, nay whole systems of universes, to be governed by laws, but the smallest insect, we wish to be created at once by special act.
Charles Darwin

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe; I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.
Arnold Schwarzenegger

The four building blocks of the universe are fire, water, gravel and vinyl.
Dave Barry

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.
Virginia Woolf

The universe never did make sense; I suspect it was built on government contract.
Robert A. Heinlein

There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.
Aldous Huxley

There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.
Aldous Huxley