Every person is a star; it just depends upon how close you are to him, that you realize his true potential and power.

Ideas are the roots of creation.

Ernest Dimnet

. Query: How contrive not to waste one's time?Answer: By being fully aware of it all the while.Ways in which this can be done: By spending one's days on an uneasy chair in a dentist's waiting-room; by remaining on one's balcony all of a Sunday afternoon; by listening to lectures in a language on doesn't know; by traveling by the longest and least-convenient train routes, and of course standing all the way; by lining up at the box-office of theaters and then not buying a seat; and so forth.

Albert Camus

I stand 100 percent by the truth, exactly what happened.

Jose Canseco

The real accomplishment of modern science and technology consists in taking ordinary men, informing them narrowly and deeply and then, through appropriate organization, arranging to have their knowledge combined with that of other specialized but equally ordinary men. This dispenses with the need for genius. The resulting performance, though less inspiring, is far more predictable.

John Kenneth Galbraith

Being president is like being a jackass in a hailstorm. There's nothing to do but to stand there and take it.

Lyndon B. Johnson

The only real valuable thing is intuition.

Albert Einstein

You can't hate someone until you know what it might be like to love them.

Jodi Picoult

When you are living in the present, you know what's important now for you and you act on that knowing.

John Kuypers

CNN found that Hillary Clinton is the most admired woman in America. Women admire her because she's strong and successful. Men admire her because she allows her husband to cheat and get away with it.

Jay Leno

What people say, what people do, and what they say they do are entirely different things.

Margaret Mead

I write in longhand on yellow legal pads.

Beverly Cleary

Why should I laugh?' asked the old man. 'Madness in youth is true wisdom. Go, young man, follow your dream, and if you do not find the happiness that you seek, at any rate you will have had the happiness of seeking it.

Andrew Lang