I've never watched The Notebook either. Not big on romance flicks," I admitted, opening the huge cartons. "Really? I thought every girl has seen that movie and can quote it at a drop of a hat.

You're a quiet, beautiful woman in a loud, ugly place. An orchid among weeds. You define obvious.

The first river you paddle runs through the rest of your life. It bubbles up in pools and eddies to remind you who you are.

The country is making a big mistake not teaching kids to cook and raise a garden and build fires.

The greatest threat to the constitutional right to vote is voter fraud.

I've read short stories that are as dense as a 19th century novel and novels that really are short stories filled with a lot of helium.

I'm dense when it comes to discouragement.

And I would urge all women to have that regular mammogram.

Height has nothing to do with it, it is your strength that counts.

For the girls with messy hair and thirsty hearts.

When people say, "It can't be done," or "You don't have what it takes," it makes the task all the more interesting.

Bill Heseltine had been at university with me, at the University of Western Australia. I knew him well.

Do what makes you happy. And when it doesn't make you happy anymore, make a change -- without fear.

It is a most disgraceful shame the way in which Irishmen are brought up. They are ashamed of their language, institutions, and of everything Irish.

I don't see any significant recession or depression in the offing.

I don't set the alarm to get up. I get up when I feel like it.

Well, I am trying to put Quebec in its place - and the place of Quebec is in Canada, nowhere else.

England is an aquarium, not a nation.

Not the ones speaking the same language, but the ones sharing the same feeling understand each other.

Only man can stop being fully man. He can ascend above all degres of universal existence and by the same token fall below the level of the basest of creatures.

You better get it while you can