If you try and take a cat apart to see how it works, the first thing you have on your hands is a non-working cat.

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.

A man is a person who will pay two dollars for a one-dollar item he wants. A woman will pay one dollar for a two-dollar item she doesn't want.

Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; ... [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks.

If you find a perfect church don't join it: You'd spoil it.

Science has but one fashion-to lose nothing once gained.

Conscience is the accumulated sediment of ancestral faint- heartedness

I think a loaded weapon aboard an airplane, whether its in the cargo section or in your overhead baggage, is a security issue.

The art of seeing nature, or, in other words, the art of using models, is in reality the great object, the point to which all our studies are directed.

I've always wanted to be the biggest real estate man to come down the pike.

Just because you’re taught that something’s right and everyone believes it’s right, it don’t make it right.

My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.