Too true about the third quote these days!

"I get up every morning determined to both change the world and have one hell of a good time. Sometimes this makes planning my day difficult."
-- E. B. White

"Read over your compositions, and wherever you meet with a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out."
-- Samuel Johnson

"I think the world is run by 'C' students."
-- Al McGuire

"I took a speed reading course and read 'War and Peace' in twenty minutes. It involves Russia."
-- Woody Allen