"Looking at female candidates today, other women are the hardest on them, especially older women who were brought up in a different culture"

"Ah, women. They make the highs higher and the lows more frequent"

"The best preparation for good work tomorrow is to do good work today"

"We have our own history, our own language, our own culture. But our destiny is also tied up with the destinies of other people - history has made us all South Africans"

"Women are responsible for their children, they cannot sit back, waste time and see them starve"

"Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail"

"Women are responsible for creating their own roles"

"I like to use the hard times in the past to motivate me today"

"In thinking about nanotechnology today, what's most important is understanding where it leads, what nanotechnology will look like after we reach the assembler breakthrough"

"Men marry because they are tired; women, because they are curious; both are disappointed"

"Without culture, and the relative freedom it implies, society, even when perfect, is but a jungle. This is why any authentic creation is a gift to the future"