NANCY LAYNE McCALLUM: An addict and a non-addict don’t think the same — their brains are wired completely differently. Only an addict can help another addict through recovery.

I had aimed at Mars and was about to hit Venus unquestionably the all-time cosmic record for poor shots.

I never want to see umbrellas around me." he [Mussolini] once said. "The umbrella is a bourgeois relic, it is the arm used by the pope's soldiers. A people who carry umbrellas cannot found an empire.

The greater self-confidence an individual possesses, the less inclined he is to put down others. This says a lot about those who constantly belittle.

Yahoo is in everything from pets to old people to finance to communications to e-commerce and more, and I really thrive on that.

I was a slightly melancholy child and I think films were a way of escaping for me.

Genius is a stream bathed by the folly.

Put your head down and work hard. Never wait for things to happen, make them happen for yourself through hard graft and not giving up.

My point is, God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous.

I'm ready to take the heat.

Clothing is the first step to building a character.