A lot of women say they love being pregnant, but I wasn't such a big fan.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.

Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.

Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.

Get involved in everything you've ever dreamed of doing.

I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.

Love is not about two people doing things similar. It is about two people doing things differently to cover one another's flaws, and making it a perfect whole.

I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.

Bulldogs are wonderful creatures to include in books. Besides their adorable bulldogishness, they provide the writer with a rare chance to use forms of the verb "snuffle.

The art of conversation lies in listening.

The soul contains the event that shall befall it for the event is only the actualization of its thoughts and what we pray to ourselves for is always granted.

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

I hate and I love. Perchance you ask why I do that. I know not, but I feel that I do and I am tortured. [Lat., Odi et amo. Quare id faciam, fortasse requiris. Nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.]

I think the term 'conceptual art' is a useful term for writers, a basket to put people in, like Pop Art or Impressionism or whatever.

Sometimes I wish the public were equally aware of the men of our race in the cultural fields. You, for instance, have you ever bought a book by a Negro writer?

A relationship ends because you've outgrown it. It can begin again because you, as two, can fill the new shape.

If we truly love other people, they will see it. That love is infectious.

When you open the door which you shut in order to pray to God, the first person you meet as you go out is your neighbour whom you shall love. Wonderful!