Birds are a miracle because they prove to us there is a finer, simpler state of being which we may strive to attain.

Remember: the time you feel lonely is the time you most need to be by yourself. Life's cruelest irony.

Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time.

You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

Fondue sets, martini shakers and juicing machines: three things the world could live completely without.

If a building looks better under construction than it does when finished, then it's a failure.

Big companies are like marching bands. Even if half the band is playing random notes, it still sounds kind of like music. The concealment of failure is built into them.

Eagles are seagulls with a good hairdo.

We decided that the French could never write user-friendly software because they're so rude.

Is there anything in the world more annoyingly creepy than an unspoken dress code?

When we constantly ask for miracles, we're unraveling the fabric of the world. A world of continuous miracles would not be a world, it would be a cartoon.

My future is one I must make myself.

Success which is something so simple in the end is made up of thousands of things we never fully know what.

There's not a self-regulating group of nice fair-playing people in politics. There are a lot of dodgy people in politics.

Bring the buds of the hazel-copse, Where two lovers kissed at noon; Bring the crushed red wild-thyme tops Where they murmured under the moon.

We're not going to take the risk when it comes to the safety of the American people. No longer.

It is very hard to stay in touch with our true identity because those who want our money, our time, and our energy profit more from our insecurity and fears than from our inner freedom.

Show me a husband who keeps his thoughts to himself, and I will show you a frustrated wife.

You can't control the quality of projects that are coming to you, so if you get several in a row that are quality, you take them.

There's people in hell who want ice water.

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.