You exaggerate your own reactions.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

Money can't buy you love, but it can get you some really good chocolate ginger biscuits.

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...

Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.

I'm quite a compulsive person-I only worked this out recently - I'm compulsive, but I'm also very indecisive. I don't know what I want, but I know that I want it now.

Oh how I hate you. I hate you so much it gives me energy. I have to get up early in the morning just to hate you, because there's not enough time in the day! Please GO AWAY!

I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.

I think you should, yeah. You should wash your beard, then shave it off, nail it to a Frisbee and fling it over a rainbow.

You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

Meeting her was luck.Knowing her was maddening.Loving her is destiny.

The weak-minded choose to hate, " she said. "It's the least painful thing to do, isn't it?

The doer alone learneth.

The essence of leadership is the capacity to build and develop the self-esteem of the workers.

Every time I perform in front of people, no matter how well it goes, the next day, I feel humiliated.

Ambition without contribution is of no significance.

In many countries there are particular places to which devils more especially resort. In Prussia there is an infinite number of evil spirits.

The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor.

I'm mad emotional. But my emotions are - I don't really get just like sad, I get hyper, and I be like mad, and I get hungry - that's like my main emotion.

Do you absolutely despise me, Walter?" "No." He hesitated and his voice was strange. "I despise myself.