A computer chatted to itself in alarm as it noticed an airlock open and close itself for no apparent reason. This was because Reason was in fact out to lunch.

The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood.

To give real service you must add something which cannot be bought or measured with money, and that is sincerity and integrity.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing noise they make as they go by.

If somebody thinks they're a hedgehog, presumably you just give 'em a mirror and a few pictures of hedgehogs and tell them to sort it out for themselves.

Let us think the unthinkable, let us do the undoable, let us prepare to grapple with the ineffable itself, and see if we may not eff it after all.

You live and learn. At any rate, you live.

If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now.

One of the things Ford Prefect had always found hardest to understand about humans was their habit of continually stating and repeating the very very obvious.

Life... is like a grapefruit. It's orange and squishy, and has a few pips in it, and some folks have half a one for breakfast.

The biggest sin in Satanism is not murder, nor is it kindness. It is stupidity.

The Presidency, even to the most experienced politicians, is no bed of roses; and [Zachary] Taylor like others, found thorns within it. No human being can fill that station and escape censure.

I have to say that elections, even in the most peaceful region, always make the hardest time for regional state institutions, including security structures.

If the people are happy, united, wealthy, and powerful, we presume the rest. We conclude that to be good from whence good is derived.

Those who are unwilling to invest in the future haven't earned one

What could I say to you that would be of value, except that perhaps you seek too much, that as a result of your seeking you cannot find.

You may think that if someone else doesn't change, you can never be happy. But if you change, you can be happy no matter what.

Everyone in my high school was a bit nerdy. We didn't even have a football team.

Robert Louis Stevenson...was a storyteller, that's what I'd like to be, that's what I'm trying to be

When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours;.