"My family is very large. 42 million."

“We all must educate children at the youngest ages that private parts are private, 'no' means no, and there is only one code of honor for everyone.”

Source : "Join the Debate". "The Arena" - Daily debate about the big issue of the moment, www.politico.com. July 21, 2012.

“The representatives of business interests are the men to start this enterprise among our people and bring them to a full realization of the very grave seriousness of this war, to make them feel that we are in this war to win, and the probability is that our entering this war is going to be the deciding factor, and that the burden of the success is going to rest upon the United States.”

“Swimming always cleans your soul”

“With regard to testimony from various experts, there was pro and con. The argument was very articulately made that many provinces allow mature minors - minors capable of making the decision - to make decisions on their own treatment in very serious cases, including cancer. They are given the right to ask for medical treatment to be withheld, so long as they understand.”

Source : "Grappling with the hardest questions on assisted dying". Interview with John Geddes, www.macleans.ca. February 25, 2016.

“I made a nuclear reactor when I was 14”

“Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.”

Source : Jack London (2015). “Jack London on Adventure: Words of Wisdom from an Expert Adventurer”, p.10, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

“Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.”

Source : "Les Prix Nobel". Yearbooks series by the Nobel Foundation, 1982.

“Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.”