Internally, you experience rowing as a graphic microcosm of life - solitude, learning, work, rest, nourishment, sharing and ultimately challenge.

Men like nails lose their usefulness when they lose direction and begin to bend.

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

It is music that speaks to the deepest reaches of your soul, and you are lifted higher, ever higher, by the adagio, in my opinion more so even than in any of the masses that Beethoven composed.

I come from a long line of matriarchal women, and my greatest teachers were my mothers.

To have a mind full of peace, merely fill it full of peace. It's as simple as that.

It is against womanhood to be forward in their own wishes.

Good drama, challenging drama - and comedy for that matter - has a place in the daytime schedule.

Be content to love, to dazzle in the light, If only for moments… And then be gone, With gladness in your heart, Before the creeping shadows Claim too much your sadness at leaving.

It takes a level of creative depression to hear 'Girls Just Wanna Have Fun' and weep.

To be happy, drop the words 'if only' and substitute instead the words 'next time'.