It may be that the old astrologers had the truth exactly reversed, when they believed that the stars controlled the destinies of men. The time may come when men control the destinies of stars.

There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum.

—Arthur C. Clarke

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.

—Arthur C. Clarke

It has yet to be proven that intelligence has any survival value.

—Arthur C. Clarke

The best measure of a man's honesty isn't his income tax return. It's the zero adjust on his bathroom scale.

—Arthur C. Clarke

The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the impossible.

—Arthur C. Clarke

Too low they build, who build beneath the stars.

—Edward Young

I believe a leaf of grass is no less than the journey-work of the stars.

—Walt Whitman

There's no night without stars.

—Andre Norton

Twilight drops her curtain down, and pins it with a star.

—Lucy Maud Montgomery

If people sat outside and looked at the stars each night, I'll bet they'd live a lot differently.

—Bill Watterson