Russell T. Davies (1963) Screenwriter, former executive producer of Doctor Who
Ood Sigma, to the Tenth incarnation of the Doctor, in The End of Time [4.18] (1 January 2010) <!-- written with Steven Moffat though only the final scene, and not this one. -->
Max Ehrmann (1872–1945) American writer, poet, and attorney
Variant: Be gentle with yourself.
You are a child of the universe
no less than the trees and the stars;
you have a right to be here.
“The universe itself is God and the universal outpouring of its soul”
Chrysippus (-281–-208 BC) ancient Greek philosopher
As quoted in De Natura Deorum by Cicero, i. 15.
Eliezer Yudkowsky (1979) American blogger, writer, and artificial intelligence researcher
Mundane Magic http://lesswrong.com/lw/ve/mundane_magic/(October 2008)
“If the universe has any soul, it is the soul of irony.”
Dan Simmons book The Rise of Endymion
Source: The Rise of Endymion (1997), Chapter 25 (p. 548)
