Human beings can get used to virtually anything, given plenty of time and no choice in the matter whatsoever.

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else

In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

After all, what else is scientific enquiry of any sort other than a controlled version of banging one's head against the universe until something gives?

There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.

Telling lies is a bit like tiling bathrooms - if you don't know how to do it properly, it's best not to try.

Love is an optical illusion that makes you believe the object of your affection is the most beautiful person in the world.

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

We are born winners, but we are hypnotized by the society to succumb to mediocrity and moulded into self-victimization. It is for each one of us to regain our self-geniusness.

When we promote the well-being of others God has placed in our lives our service glorifies God.

It was only when I started to dig my heels in that I started to realize that's what I needed to do - that nobody was going to open the door for me, that I had to make some space.

I don't think any of us can speak frankly about pain until we are no longer enduring it.

Some people don't take me seriously, so I had to work harder.

I definitely understood the feeling of moving to Los Angeles and having a dream to be an actor in films and to get to be a part of things that I loved and inspire people in some way.

Try to realize it's all within yourself no one else can make you change, and to see you're only very small and life flows on within you and without you.

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.

There was that feminist myth that we can do everything. I don't think you can.

Blessed be all metrical rules that forbid automatic responses, force us to have second thoughts, free us from the fetters of Self.