One always overcompensates for disabilities. I'm thinking of having my entire body surgically removed.

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.

It would be arrogant of us to think that we exist in a world created specifically for us and that knowing the reality we live in is unnecessary.

Don't believe everything you read on the Internet.

Man loves man so much that when he flees the city, it is still to seek the crowd, that is, to rebuild the city in the country.

I think you're cute when the power goes to your head.

The life of man in this world is like the life of a fly in a room filled with 100 boys, each armed with a fly-swatter.

There was never a person who did anything worth doing that he did not receive more than he gave.

When I see bacon, I see a pig, I see a little friend, and that's why I can't eat it. Simple as that.

You can take art, you can have a baby, you can have a career.

There has been a growing consensus across the country - from statehouses to the White House and the halls of Congress - that we need to take dramatic steps to improve our secondary schools.