If cats were double the size they are now, they'd probably be illegal.

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.

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

You mature as far as your understanding of what it's going to take, and you increase your stamina. You don't let frustration overtake you when you're looking for change.

I opened up a frozen-yogurt business out of college. I didnt finish college; I went halfway, and then I worked for Joel Silver, the producer, as a driver for a year.

Life is the greatest of blessings and death the worst of evils.... all great, powerful souls love life.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

I practice staying calm all the time, beginning with situations that aren't tense.

Curiosity is an asset mostly frittered away.

God supplies the needs of His people according to their needs but does not ordinarily allow stockpiling.

Those accept an obligation lightly who feel lightly about letting it drop.