We are changed souls; we don't look at things the same way anymore. For there was a time when we expected the worst. But then the worst happened, did it not? And so we will never be surprised again.

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.

You're going to have things to repent, boy, ' Mr. John had told Nick. 'That's one of the best things there is. You can always decide whether to repent them or not. But the thing is to have them.

It is not the straining for great things that is most effective it is the doing the little things the common duties a little better and better.

The more successful I become, the more I need a man.

I found after seventy years that I was not a lunatic but a moron.... I should have been able to do better.

The time is not far off when many nations in many parts of the world of many political shades and commitments will possess nuclear or even thermonuclear weapons.

A sure thing is no fun.

I think concerns with a member of Congress with a cabinet official being active in business. I don't see why it wouldn't apply to the president.

Nobody takes a picture of something they want to forget.

The coolest thing you can become is yourself.

Hindsight is a wonderful thing but foresight is better, especially when it comes to saving life, or some pain!