Quote Junkie: Don't Panic!

Yes, I am at Disneyland today celebrating my birthday.

BUT, I couldn't let the day pass without acknowledging another special birthday. So, via the magic of modern technology, while I frolic with Mickey and pals, you get to enjoy some wit and wisdom from the late, great Douglas Adams, with whom I am proud to share a birthday ...
"DON'T PANIC."

"The Guide is definitive. Reality is frequently inaccurate."
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."

"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
"In those days spirits were brave, the stakes were high, men were REAL men, women were REAL women, and small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri were REAL small furry creatures from Alpha Centauri."

"He hoped and prayed that there wasn't an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn't an afterlife."

"What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer."

"The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at and repair."

"We have normality. I repeat, we have normality. anything you still can't cope with is therefore your own problem."

"Man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much... the wheel, New York, wars, and so on, whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely the dolphins believed themselves to be more intelligent than man for precisely the same reasons."
I'd far rather be happy than right any day." (Slartibartfast)

“There is a theory which states that if ever for any reason anyone discovers what exactly the Universe is for and why it is here it will instantly disappear and be replaced by something even more bizarre and inexplicable. There is another that states that this has already happened.”

"Shee, you guys are so unhip it's a wonder your bums don't fall off." (Zaphod)

"If there's anything more important than my ego around, I want it caught and shot now." (Zaphod Beeblebrox)

The Guide, on towels:

"A towel, it says, is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have ... any man who can hitch the length and breadth of the galaxy, rough it, slum it, struggle against terrible odds, win through, and still knows where his towel is is clearly a man to be reckoned with."