It's just amazing how hard it is for people to change, even when amazing things happen. It almost reinforces who you are instead of making you change.

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.

To become an effective radiation researcher, you must develop the ability to discern fact from fiction.

It is the ultimate religion, through which all humans neuropsychologically morph into Buddhas, or Enlightened Beings.

History must repeat itself because we pay such little attention to it the first time.

From whatever you wish to know and measure you must take your leave, at least for a time. Only when you have left the town can yousee how high its towers rise above the houses.

It is important that karate can be practiced by the young and old, men and women alike.

As soon as I found out how compartmentalized the industry was, I realized, Well, no wonder the cartoons are so bad.

I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!

Without a safe haven, one of the most authentic parts of who you are, who you love, felt invisible to the world.

I have always had a horror and detestation of poverty.