I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eating side.

If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.

Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

Nixon’s offences had been so long in the past, so much part of a different era that he now seemed like some lovable but bigoted uncle you tolerated at Christmas and Thanksgiving.

Everyday something unexpected happened. Everyday was exciting. Everyday was a misadventure.

The cat required far less attendance than a human child, which is one of the reasons why spinster ladies prefer felines to babies.

It's sour grapes, I admit, I want to be more famous so people are examining my work couplet by couplet, you know what I mean? That's the level where I want to go.

I moonlight as a singer.

[Salvation] is a curious process of divine burglary. The first thing to be wrested from one by a God who said 'Thou shalt not steal' is one's good opinion of one's self.

Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.

Acting is about enhancing your life, not representing something that's missing.

A wise man heedeth all things, and in his own eyes is a fool.

Make peace with the universe. Take joy in it. It will turn to gold. Resurrection will be now. Every moment, a new beauty.