"The first boy was always the hardest."

“I don't know about technology and I don't know about finance and accounting.”

Source : "Ebbers found guilty over $11bn fraud at WorldCom" by David Teather, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2005.

“If you wish to avoid seeing a fool, you must first break your mirror”

“I do think it's important for black writers to show that we too can make it into the mainstream. Growing up, I didn't just watch The Cosby Show, I watched Growing Pains and Family Ties too. We can tell those stories too.”

“The sincere Christian knows that what died in Auschwitz was not the Jewish people but Christianity.”

“Life is like an ever-shifting kaleidoscope - a slight change, and all patterns alter.”

Source : FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 17, 2012

“I was born to be a remarkable woman; it matters little in what way or how. ... I shall be famous or I will die.”

Source : Marie Bashkirtseff, Phyllis Howard Kernberger, Katherine Kernberger (1997). “I am the most interesting book of all: the diary of Marie Bashkirtseff”, Chronicle Books Llc

“It never dawned on me at any particular time of my life that people are paid tremendous money to sing.”

“Buffy the Vampire Slayer showed the whole world, and an entire sprawling industry, that writing monsters and demons and end-of-the-world is not hack-work, it can challenge the best. Joss Whedon raised the bar for every writer - not just genre/niche writers, but every single one of us.”

Source : "Mindy Newell: It Was Twenty Years Ago Today…". www.comicmix.com. April 3, 2017.