...they discovered only a small asteroid inhabited by a solitary old man who claimed repeatedly that nothing was true, though he was later discovered to be lying.

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.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Peace comes through strength, not through retreat.

If I didn't have this affliction, I would be the first. As a rule the if-clause contains an unfulfillable condition, or the patient's own arrangement, which only he can change.

We have medicalized aging, and that experiment is failing us.

The only thing that I was equipped for with my very mediocre college Arts degree was to get a job in teaching.

I've always had courage. But I didn't always own my diabetes.

I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.

If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja

It is better to be faithful than famous.

I suppose in London they all drink from the same watering holes.