I was with a famous comedian when a young fan walked up and asked for an autograph. The comedian blew him off. I'll never forget the look on the young boy's face. He was devastated.

It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.

General Douglas MacArthur

Humility is no substitute for a good personality.

Fran Lebowitz

I did 13-something years of talking to wrestlers and promoters about why they did certain things and why they booked matches a certain way and what they were thinking and whether they were satisfied with the draw. And I got a lot of insight in the business.

Billy Corgan

Sometimes it made her want to put her fist through glass; other times, it made her cry a river.

Jodi Picoult

We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.

Doris Lessing

The world turns aside to let any man pass who knows whither he is going.

David Starr Jordan

One person's constant is another person's variable.

Susan Gerhart

A word to the wise ain't necessary - it's the stupid ones that need the advice.

Bill Cosby

I love music so much I love what I do. I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

Diana Krall

No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was natural, really, that I would take that interest.

Octavia Butler

I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark.

Vanilla Ice

In the current fashionable denigration of technology, it is easy to forget that nuclear fission is a natural process. If something as intricate as life can assemble by accident, we need not marvel at the fission reactor, a relatively simple contraption, doing likewise.

James Lovelock