I am one of those irritating people, who hang on to the door-knob after they say good-bye, and will neither come back nor go, always remembering something else which must be said.

Never retract, never explain, never apologize; get things done and let them howl.

I am a believer in women, in their ability to do things and in their influence and power. Women set the standards for the world, and it is for us, women in Canada, to set the standards high.

That seems to be the haunting fear of mankind - that the advancement of women will sometime, someway, someplace, interfere with some man's comfort.

I want to leave something behind when I go; some small legacy of truth, some word that will shine in a dark place.

Women had first to convince the world that they had souls and then that they had minds and then it came on to this matter of political entity and the end is not yet.

Never underestimate the power of a woman.

Women are going to form a chain, a greater sisterhood than the world has ever known.

Why are pencils equipped with erasers if not to correct mistakes?

No nation ever rises higher than its women.

Disturbers are never popular - nobody ever really loved an alarm clock in action, no matter how grateful he may have been afterwards for its kind services!

Creativity adds signature or aesthetic that elevates passion to purpose and fancy to enchantment.

I always strive to create a setting that leaves the readers' imagination room to roam. That way, every reader sees the story through their own eyes.

I don't need a diet pill. I need something that gives you an electric shock when you reach for food.

It takes a certain amount of courage to tackle very hard problems in science, I now realise. You don't know what the timescale of your work will be: decades or only a few years.

Iraq did nothing to us. Iraq was not responsible for 9/11.

I felt like one of the boys. My friends were boys. In school I related to boys.

For me, I don't even like to promote my films but I have to because it's in the fine print of my contract.

The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.

In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.

Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault) Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.