Earthmen are not proud of their ancestors and never invite them round to dinner.

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.

Jedi are conversationalists and negotiators, bringing people together and solving problems. Jedi listen and feel to what others are saying.

If you don't take chances you can't do anything in life.

I'm excited for people to realize that I'm 25 years old and not a teenager anymore... even though I still look 18 and can't get into a bar to save my life!

I think Michigan and the people of Michigan know - really, they know that I'm going to protect them. They're great people.

Ye great teachers: listen to what you say!

Before you can read, you know the difference between a story and reality. And, of course, by the time you're old enough to do any real damage with an Uzi, you've learned that difference.

Knowledge is the rediscovering of our own insight.

Grace is not something outside or you.. In fact, your very desire for grace is due to grace that is already working in you.

I'm just saying that if you understand how the economic machine works, it just works like a machine. There are cause-effect relationships.

Be yourselves, be spunky, be spontaneous. Low-maintenance is always the biggest plus in the world.