I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

I really love good food occasionally, but I need time to enjoy it and I need to be hungry.

I want to make the world a better place, for women, mainly.

Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

Fitting in is boring. But it takes you nearly your whole life to work that out.

I think 'ambitious' is one of those adjectives used for women in a derogatory way.

I find people interesting. People trying hard are interesting. People with a passion are interesting - whether its old cars or taxidermy or knitting.

I don't make decisions for money or popularity. I do things because they're right for me, and they're interesting and challenging.

Swimming and athletics are the big gigs at the Olympic games. Cycling and rowing are pretty big for Britain, but globally, the two big things are athletics and swimming.

I hate being alone, even for 10 minutes.

I get a lot of abuse on Twitter. It's mostly homophobic, but what can you do? I just either ignore it or laugh.

Almost-Sister, you picked a real catch.”“It was I who caught her, ” Adam said softly. “It took years.

No one likes a person that "should of" all over the place.

You must make love to him like his touch is your salvation.

Successful politicians are people who know how to make us think well of them without our realizing that that’s what they’re doing

We don't always walk from one state of mind into another. We might just oscillate back and forth for a whole lifetime within the polarities of a certain state of mind.

A man who works evil against another works it really against himself, and bad advice is worst for the one who devised it

I don't think there's any reason on Earth why people should have access to automatic and semiautomatic weapons unless they're in the military or in the police.

To busy oneself with what is futile when one can do something useful, to attend to what is simple when one has the mettle to attempt what is difficult, is to strip talent of its dignity.

There's scarce a case comes on but you shall find A woman's at the bottom. [Lat., Nulla fere causa est in qua non femina litem moverit.]

I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my reason and motive for making photographs.