The most misleading assumptions are the ones you don't even know you're making.

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 order to approach a creation as sublime as the Bhagavad-Gita with full understanding it is necessary to attune our soul to it.

The thing is, memory is about trust. We have to trust that what we remember is fact. And we have to trust what other people remember for things we never saw.

Why do all great men, live not long enough, to see their greatness?

Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Nor was it wise to tempt angels, even of the fallen sort.

Friendship is a plant of slow growth and must undergo and withstand the shocks of adversity before it is entitled to the appellation.

A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

You can beat the drum so hard that people stop listening. I wanted to use my voice wisely and not expend it wastefully.

An act of love, a voluntary taking on oneself of some of the pain of the world, increases the courage and love and hope of all.

We're going to do everything we can to make sure workers are treated like assets, not costs.

Wit,--the pupil of the soul's clear eye.