"The very best thing you can do is to try to write a song that has some sort of impact."

“One-and-done is the most damaging thing in college basketball. It brings money into the college game, because it kickstarts the bidding war. When you know a kid can't turn pro and is going to go to school for one year and then go pro, that's when you see everyone going to games and courting players.”

“I used to be a real doctor. Now I just play one on TV.”

“Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts.”

Source : François Arago (1859). “Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men: The history of my youth, an autobiography of Francis Arago.Bailly.Herschel.Laplace.Joseph Fourier.-ser. 2 Carnot.Malus.Fresnel.Thomas Young.James Watt”, p.412

“Expectations tend to be self-fulfilling.”

“I believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each other.”

Source : Interview to US Magazine, www.gilliananderson.ws. October, 1997.

“Try to meet as many authors, agents, and editors as you can.”

“Organizations are about putting ideas through one or more types of gating procedures. In this way, ideas go from being a whim to becoming a project, from being a "skunk works" effort to becoming an official, mainstream effort, from being an unfounded program to a funded process, and so on.”

Source : Interview with Joel Kurtzman, www.strategy-business.com. October 1, 1996.

“The Independent or Congregational theory includes two principles; first, that the governing and executive power in the Church is in the brotherhood; and secondly, that the Church organization is complete in each worshipping assembly, which is independent of every other.”