Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

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.

Winning is not always about shining the brightest. Sometimes it's about sharing the light with someone who has been waiting in the shadows all along.

My secret to maintaining a youthful appearance? Immaturity.

An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.

All our souls are written in our eyes.

The prejudices of ignorance are more easily removed than the prejudices of interest; the first are blindly adopted; the second wilfully preferred.

I don't really remember much about the '60s at all. You know, 1970 is the first year I remember pretty well.

What I love about collaborating is that you're working with other minds that work differently to yours.

We do not have the luxury of despair right now. There is too much at stake, for too many people.

The object of this competition is not to be mean to the losers but to find a winner. The process makes you mean because you get frustrated.

I knew from the minute I saw her (Hillary) that if I got involved with her I would fall in love with her.