The past is a finite resource.

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.

I can’t chitchat and make breakfast at the same time. You could help, you know, instead of standing there like the Queen of England. Although you’re a lot better-looking.

...the most important thing you must remember when dealing with a politically biased professor is to be friendly.

Bronze is the mirror of form, wine of the heart.

Reinforce what you want to see repeated.What gets rewarded gets done.

At 9 years old I weighed about 10 lbs. less than what my weight is at 32. I needed to get help.

I was never really a comic-book fanatic.

We all have those days when you feel like you're against the world, every little thing goes wrong and your blood pressure is up. And you feel like punching somebody!

I am Woman, here me roar...of is that my vacuum cleaner?

Equally, we require a collective past - hence the endless reinterpretations of history, frequently to suit the perceptions of the present.

Well may your heart believe the truths Well may your heart believe the truths I tell; 'Tis virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.