He attacked everything in life with a mix of extraordinary genius and naive incompetence, and it was often difficult to tell which was which.

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.

Whoever extolleth him as a God of love, doth not think highly enough of love itself. Did not that God want also to be judge? But the loving one loveth irrespective of reward and requital.

The only people remembered in history are the ones that dedicate their lives to service and purpose

Be eager to explore new discoveries

Forgiving is easier when we understand that forgiving someone else means that we are freeing ourselves of an unnecessary burden.

[on her role as Special Agent Dana Scully on The X-Files (1993)] I am more spontaneous than my character.

Abusers thrive on creating confusion, including confusion about the abuse itself.

When somebody comes up to you and shows you yellow underlining of something you wrote, that's such a high. It's a connection to others.

This is one of the last industries where the subject is off limits. Nobody’s comfortable in engaging in a conversation.

There is no other investment that has the kind of social multiplier effect that early education has. It is an incredible thing to nurture and watch grow and spread.

A warrior is worthless unless he rises above others and stands strong in the midst of a storm.