(FORTUNE Magazine) – - -- COLIN POWELL, 54, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, encouraging students at his alma mater, Morris High School in the Bronx, to avoid drugs and graduate: ''Stick with it. I'm giving you an order. Stick with it.''

-- BURTON LEE III, 61, George Bush's doctor, on the first National Doctors' Day, a March 30 celebration supported by the President: ''When we've done something about excessive costs, when we have finally decided to serve all the people, then we deserve a national doctors' day.''

-- MADONNA, 32, singer and businesswoman, on why she cut some of her phone conversations with ex-beau Warren Beatty out of a movie being made about her: ''Warren didn't know we were recording. It wasn't fair. Besides, it's against the law.''