Certain success evicts one from the paradise of winning against the odds. - Isaac Asimov

He who is needed must learn to endure flattery.

We have: One, a robot may not injure a human being, or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.

And [Asimov]'ll sign anything, hardbacks, softbacks, other people's books, scraps of paper. Inevitably someone handed him a blank check on the occasion when I was there, and he signed that without as much as a waver to his smile — except that he signed: 'Harlan Ellison.