Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

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.

And like anyone who is in valiant pursuit of a dream, the ups and downs come and go, but the dream lives in the heart forever.

Mistakes are a fact of life: It is the response to the error that counts.

We are no more content to plod along the beaten paths - and so marriage must go the way of God.

In heaven after ages of ages of growing glory, we shall have to say, as each new wave of the shoreless, sunlit sea bears us onward, It doth not yet appear what we shall be.

I'm not happy, frankly. Because I think in a civil society we don't need firearms.

Money is the fruit of evil, as often as the root of it.

Part of the act of creating is in discovering your own kind. They are everywhere. But don't look for them in the wrong places.

I want to provoke people with thoughts, not by taking my clothes off. It's time to move on from Stripperville.

If you want people to listen to you, then be willing to listen to them.