Your ability to rationalize your own bad deeds makes you believe that the whole world is as amoral as you are.

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.

To serve others is not only by hands but by mouth as well.

An artist cannot fail it is a success to be one.

It is boorish to live ungraciously: the giving is the hardest part what does it cost to add a smile?

Of course, I'd welcome protest. Good criticism is hard to find.

We can often better help another by fanning a glimmer of goodness than by censuring his faults.

When I fall in love, it will be forever.

To invite others to live with us is a sign that we aren't afraid, that we have a treasure of truth and of peace to share.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

The imporant things in life never happened by accident. But even with those things that were meant to be, sometimes you had to wait awhile and then maybe give them a little nudge.

Greatness comes by beginning something that doesn't end with you.