Even light, which travels so fast it takes most races thousands of years to realize that it travels at all, takes time to journey between the stars.

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.

Time is your weapon, If you lose it, you will lose the battle.

Sometimes I get so sad that it jest sounds good.

If I knew I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

When the wind is blowing and the sleet or rain is driving against the dark windows, I love to sit by the fire, thinking of what I have read in books of voyage and travel.

Here's what breaks us: Even though we know better, we still want everything to be all right.

You can never say everything you want to say. I feel I had a fair opportunity to explain a lot of the questions.

We are on a planet of seven billion people, five billion mobile subscriptions.

When you are in joy you are in love with the world & the Universe is in love with you.

We can ask for a dream of guidance on any issue that is facing us, and when we're lucky the dream can take us out of the boxes of the everyday mind's approach to that theme.

I think there's a large segment of the mainland population that does not really understand the number of territories that are part of the United States.