It's guff. It doesn't advance the action. It makes for nice fat books such as the American market thrives on, but it doesn't actually get you anywhere.

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.

Cats speak the language of comfort and coolness and therefore we feel comfortable and cool whenever we see a cat!

In a dream, we are simply confronted with various loaded symbols, and where one is exhausted, it gives way to another.

Our work in global health is about things like cutting childhood deaths, and every year we continue to make progress there.

Where it gets clear for me about the privacy issue is with my kids because they didn't choose this kind of life. I'm an incredibly open person, though - I'll tell anyone anything.

To be honest, Im not that much of a reader of Korean fiction, since so little is translated.

Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Hope is like a road in the country; there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.

The coolest man in world cricket MS Dhoni delivers when it most matters!

Religion is to do right. It is to love, it is to serve, it is to think, it is to be humble.

Don't make a threat and then not do it.