Sir,' I said to the universe, 'I exist.' 'That,' said the universe, 'creates no sense of obligation in me whatsoever.

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.

In that moment, it felt like we were the entire world. Just me and those gorgeous stars.

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

If a literary man puts together two words about music, one of them will be wrong.

Describe your product in terms of what it does not in terms of what it is.

This is normal, to have pressure. It's how you respond. Take the pressure, use the pressure, have fun.

The highest goal of spirituality is Self-realization, but what does that mean? It means to feel your Self as a living reality in this moment, and there is always only this moment. (10)

A paranoiac, like a poet, is born, not made.

When money disappears, we soon understand the power of absence.

Politics is not about winning for the sake of winning.

Don't be cocky, 'Pride cometh before the fall