The real killers in the business world aren't the ones who aim for the top, it's the ones who aim for two notches below the top.

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 question is to grow.

Solve your problems or your problems solve you.

When we're together, " he whispered, "we'll only see each other, not the ugliness around us.

I trust other people to tell me if it's too far or tasteless, because there's not too much that I won't do. I like to push the limits. Obviously, that's more dangerous and more fun for everybody.

If God thinks this state of war in the universe a price worth paying for free will...then we may take it it is worth paying.

What I do and what I dream include thee, as the wine must taste of its own grapes.

You heard it from the heart, you saw it in their eyes. Then I got used to the fact that I couldn't feel my fingers and my feet. That for me was the essence of the battle.

Habit is either the best of servants or the worst of masters.

Language follows its own path. It can bridge gulfs of class and geography in the most remarkable ways.

The tyrant is a child of pride.