People often remark that I'm pretty lucky. Luck is only important in so far as getting the chance to sell yourself at the right moment. After that, you've got to have talent and know how to use it.

You should never assume. You know what happens when you assume. You make an ass out of you and me because that's how it's spelled.

Ellen DeGeneres

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Clifton Fadiman

I think, therefore a single fertilized egg cell can replicate itself into trillions of specialized and exquisitely organized cells.

David Self

Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation.

John Ruskin

Unless Americans come to realize that they are not stronger in the world because they have the bomb but weaker because of their vulnerability to atomic attack, they are not likely to conduct their policy at Lake Success [the United Nations] or in the

Albert Einstein

Falsehood is invariably the child of fear in one form or another.

Aleister Crowley

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.

Benjamin Disraeli

In the old days, one married a wife; now one forms a company with a female partner, or moves in to live with a friend. And then one seduces the partner, or defiles the friend.

J. August Strindberg

The war is dreadful. It is the business of the artist to follow it home to the heart of the individual fighters -- not to talk in armies and nations and numbers -- but to track it home.

D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence

I think people are sexy when they have a sense of humor, when they are smart, when they have some sense of style, when they are kind, when they express their own opinions, when they are creative, when they have character.

Suzanne Vega

If you can see it, you can achieve it. God helps those who helps themselves. Power is in the act of humility.

Patricia Amis

Footnotes -- little dogs yapping at the heels of the text

William James