It is folly to say you know what is happening to other people. Only they know, if they exist. They have their own Universes of their own eyes and ears.

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.

To 'know Thyself' is considered quite an accomplishment.

A woman's always younger than a man of equal years.

Mountains appear more lofty the nearer they are approached but great men resemble them not in this particular.

I trust people too much, and the other tragedy is I can't say no.

What we seek to do in Tantric Buddhism is to liquefy ourselves. Life will automatically bring us to the next stage. You don't really have to know where you're going - It's like breathing.

Where does love begin? In our own homes. When does it begin? When we pray together. The family that prays together stays together.

All people and each individual man is called to come into the Church.

But every year you grow, you will find me bigger.

Being charismatic doesn't make you a leader. Being a leader makes you charismatic.

I think it's important to have an experienced writer or editor critique your work to get it ready to pitch an agent.