I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by.

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.

Perception is the lie that we convince ourselves exists

At fifteen life had taught me undeniably that surrender, in its place, was as honorable as resistance, especially if one had no choice.

I see taking care of my emotional and mental health in the same way that I see taking care of a garment: After it's been through wear and tear, it needs attention.

I dread karaoke. I hate karaoke. I can't sing - that is why.

To leave this world a better person, and for me to not be the only one who knows it.

Even a China growing at 7% or indeed less is still adding to the world economy an economy equivalent to the UK or more.

You have to be precisely in the moment in order to box. And I just love that. I just love the idea of right now we're here, be here.

He, who holds out but a doubtful hope of succour to the afflicted, denies it.

I want some day to be able to love with the same intensity and unselfishness that parents love their children with.

I had a very close family and I couldn't get away with anything.