I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

The real danger is the gradual erosion of individual liberties through automation, integration, and interconnection of many small, separate record-keeping systems, each of which alone may seem innocuous, even benevolent, and wholly justifiable.

Anon., U. S. Privacy Study Commi

Cutting the space budget really restores my faith in humanity. It eliminates dreams, goals, and ideals and lets us get straight to the business of hate, debauchery, and self-annihilation.

Johnny Hart

Depend on no man, on no friend but him who can depend on himself. He only who acts conscientiously toward himself, will act so toward others.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

Humor is always based on a modicum of truth. Have you ever heard a joke about a father-in-law?

Dick Clark

You can't take the human out of the person.

Tommy Tran

At the end of the day, there's only a few major stars in the music business, and then there's all these people that are aspiring to be that.

John Legend

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

Thomas Alva Edison

The world is shaped by two things stories told and the memories they leave behind.

Vera Nazarian

I've always found it easier to be funny than to be serious.

Molly Ivins

If mankind were to continue in other than the present barbarism, a new path must be found, a new civilization based on some other method than technology.

Clifford D. Simak

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast.

Logan Pearsall Smith