My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.

Success doesn't happen overnight. Keep your eye on the prize and don't look back.

To give up is easy. But to hold it together when everyone else thinks you'd fall apart is true strength.

Admitting your weaknesses does not diminish your strengths: it shows your courage.

I think what I try to do with all the naysayers, negative comments, or even people that think you can't do it, I'm trying very hard to use it as motivation and to add to that chip on my shoulder.

Being a woman in a male-dominated industry, you are so afraid of people thinking you are weak.

I always second-guess what I am doing.

I try to stay in shape just to handle things like the stress of a job or everyday life.

I'm in love with college football. I have such a blast with it.

I'm somebody that has a very big competitive edge and a chip on my shoulder.

Yes, I am an Irish lass through and through.

I've learned from experience that if you work harder at it, and apply more energy and time to it, and more consistency, you get a better result. It comes from the work.

Today, nuclear power provides 20 percent of power in the United States.

I admired Eugene McCarthy's courage and although I left his Senate staff after four years to accept a job as the researcher on the editorial page of the 'Washington Post, ' I remained an admirer.

I'm always ready for the enemy to come over the hill. I'm packed and set to go. That comes from my time in the army. I used to travel in a tank, but now it's a tour bus going to safer places.

Or perhaps it is just that desire lies at the heart of human existence. When we turn away from one desire, we must find another to cleave to with all our strength --or else we die.

No photographer is as good as the simplest camera.

I believe a human being - if he or she wants to remain human, then he or she must do something with what we have seen, endured, witnessed.

Laughter is a powerful way to tap positive emotions

Science fiction readers probably have the gene for novelty, and seem to enjoy a cascade of invention as much as a writer enjoys providing one.

Tis Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours.