Liz Smith

Begin somewhere; you cannot build a reputation on what you intend to do.

The greatest of all mistakes is to do nothing because you can only do a little. Do what you can.

You can't build a reputation on what you intend to do.

Growing up I played piano and I sang at a lot of weddings; I grew up in a very small town, a little coal-mining town in Virginia called Grundy. And my family was very sing-songy at home.

But with each passing year and each new study, the evidence for the genetic contribution to individual and group differences becomes more firmly established than ever.

I grew up hunting with shotguns and rifles, and we had a gun in every corner of the living room. I'm not a gun advocate, but that's the way I grew up.