"There has got to be a point that exists somewhere, when a rational person just has to shake his head and say: 'You know what? Maybe all the crack-pots are right!'"

“Marriage is not a priority for me. I'm not saying I'll never do it. It's just not where we are as a family . . . I'll be at home with my man, having a perfectly loving time, and I'll see all these comments on some site about how wrong I am for not being married. I don't feel less loved or less loving because I'm not married.”

“Time, for all its smuggling in of new problems, conspicuously cancels others.”

“Boldness, and again boldness, and always boldness!”

Source : Speech to Legislative Committee of General Defence, 2 Sept. 1792

“People would be a lot better off if they'd enjoy being single.”

“A sister can be seen as someone who is both ourselves and very much not ourselves - a special kind of double.”

“I don't mind not being cool.”

“The key to handling pressure is to enjoy it when you're confronted with it rather than worry about it too much.”

“An athlete may run ten thousand miles in order to prepare for one hundred yards. Quantity gives experience.”