Rowing provided a place to go, a community where people cared about what I did and what I achieved.

I'm not from a maple producing area and so my maple syrup credentials are very much of the eating side.

If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.

I am thrilled yet overwhelmed. There are so many great women athletes, some incredible performances.

It often seems to me that art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him.

I don't know what fire is made of - hell nobody does. All I know is that fire is awesome. I'm not a pyromaniac, but I am a pyroenthusiast.

By a divine paradox, wherever there is one slave there are two. So in the wonderful reciprocities of being, we can never reach the higher levels until all our fellows ascend with us.

Why was it that they could never shout like that about anything that mattered?

Just so sure as one puts on any old rag, and thinks nobody will come, company is sure to call.

There is nothing in afflictions which ought to disturb our joy.

One does not see anything until one sees its beauty.

A word is nothing unless it has values and an atmosphere, unless you grasp its historical significance.

Undermine the entire economic structure of society by leaving the pay toilet door ajar so the next person can get in free.

Let me make the newspapers, and I care not what is preached in the pulpit or what is enacted in Congress