Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?

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.

I rate enthusiasm even above professional skill.

We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

What the eye doesn't see and the mind doesn't know, doesn't exist.

Religion has always persecuted science.

My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

To this day, I'm not as interested in music as people think. I'm more interested in how close we can get through the music.

If children are apparently unable to learn, we should assume that we have not as yet found the right way to teach them.

They say that even the brightest star won't shine forever. But in fact, the brightest star would live the shortest amount of time. Feel free to extract whatever life lesson you want from that.

They [leftists] are outraged when people are not cranky and not miserable. They want everybody to be, if they are. It isn't fair that some people should be enjoying life when other people don't.

In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form.