"The spirit is there in every boy; it has to be discovered and brought to light."

“I like to go wakeboarding. It's my new favorite sport. It's like skiing but on a snowboard that has little shoes on it.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“No industry or country can reach its full potential until women reach their full potential. This is especially true of science and technology, where women with a surplus of talent still face a deficit of opportunity.”

“I'm glad God chose you to be my Dad!”

“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.”

Source : Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1818). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788, by Mr. Hamilton, Mr. Madison, and Mr. Jay: with an Appendix, Containing the Letters of Pacificus and Helvidius, on the Proclamation of Neutrality of 1793; Also, the Original Articles of Confederation, and the Constitution of the United States, with the Amendments Made Thereto”, p.60

“You're blessed if you have the strength to work.”

“I sure tried to help deliver compromise, consensus, bipartisanship.”

“Natalie Lyalin is writing some of the best poems in the world. There is an evil in her gorgeous poem-hearts. She must have sold her heart to the devil to write like this—so beautiful, so funny and so strange. Her images stack and stack down the page without spilling, each line such a bombshell you'll start reading backward to the first line. These poems are like babies—they will pop out of trees.”

“Never take advice from anyone with no investment in the outcome.”

Source : "Ten rules for writing fiction", www.theguardian.com. February 19, 2010.