ETHNOMAGNETISM: The tendency of young people to live in emotionally demonstrative, more unrestrained ethnic neighborhoods: 'You wouldn't understand it there, mother - they hug where I live now.'

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.

Fear is the Fatal killer of Desire.

America was born out of a desire for self-determination, a longing for the human dignity that only independence can bring.

To this day, the United States is profoundly grateful for our friendship and alliance with Greece.

Life is like a prism. What you see depends on how you turn the glass.

The longer a dead-end, the more it looks like a road.

Pain is not a punishment; pleasure is not a reward.

... true faith never comes without anguish.

The freedom of a government does not depend on the quality of its laws, but upon the power that has the right to create them.

If I ever found a church that didn't believe in knocking all the other churches, I might consider joining it.

If we reason that we want happiness for others, not for ourselves, then we ought justly to be suspected of failing to recognize human nature for what it is and of wishing to turn men into machines.