Once you've achieved everything, there is nothing left. You take out the core of being human: the striving.

HR?' 'Human Resources.' 'In Brussels that kind of department is referred to as the Office for Personkind Enablement. Resources sounds like something you dig out of the ground.

How many twenty-second-century bureaucrats did it take to change a light panel? We'll have a sub-committee meeting and get back to you with an estimate.

The military do so love shiny new technology, there's always so many ways to abuse it.

The penalty for a long life is increasing resistance to change.

Sometimes you have to do what’s wrong in order to do what’s right.

You cannot impose ideologies on people who do not embrace it wholeheartedly.

I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt the value of life itself.

Always trust in proven survivors.

The sun was boiling, the swaying was uncomfortable, the horse stank. She felt wonderful

Alien Affairs. Bad name I always thought, makes it sound like they're shagging them rather than investigating them.

When God wants to give you a miracle, He first gives you a problem.

We know that the world is not resting on the horn of a bull

I don't always buy organic food. It is more expensive.

Cherish the good, learn from the bad

In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.

A good front is half the battle in love or war.

People pay for what they do, and still more for what they have allowed themselves to become, and they pay for it, very simply, by the lives they lead.

Gary Condit is on the Congressional committee for Homeland Security. They make the guy responsible for Homeland Security who is the guy no one would feel secure going home with.

You keep thinking that you'll never get burned, I just found me a brand new box of matches.

Youth need less critics and more models.