"Fear of punishment diminishes self-esteem and goodwill."

“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“On the radio I listen to the easy-listening stations, the jazz stations.”

Source : "Patti Page, Proving That Simple Songs Endure" by Bernard Weinraub, www.nytimes.com. August 12, 2003.

“Just like zillions of children, album covers educated and informed me, and certainly did I later transpose organically, rather than by intent, those principles both in fashion design and photography.”

“No man has ever paid a single bill in my life - I didn't want it.”

“Time is generally the best doctor.”

“If you want more effective programmers, you will discover that they should not waste their time debugging, they should not introduce the bugs to start with.”

Source : "The Humble Programmer". Edsger Dijkstra's ACM Turing Award lecture, "Communications of the ACM", Volume 15, No. 10, www.cs.utexas.edu. October 1972.

“I'm a water person; water heals.”

“Money will make you more of what you already are. If you're not a nice person, money's going to make you a despicable individual. If you're a good person, money's going to make you a better person.”