Above all, train hard, eat light, and avoid TV and people with negative attitudes.

To some extent, we are all labeled by what we're able to achieve. But more importantly, we are defined by what we attempt.

Many dedicated endurance athletes don’t need to be told what to do – they need to be told what not to do.

If you race merely for the tributes from others, you will be at the mercy of their expectations.

It is only after one is in trouble that one realizes how little sympathy and kindness there are in the world.

I'm really happy to be me, and I'd like to think people like me more because I'm happy with myself and not because I refuse to conform to anything.

Sympathy will have been increased through natural selection

Stories have no point if they don't absorb our terror.

Inequality may linger in the world of material things, but great music, great literature, great art and the wonders of science are, and should be, open to all.

I've always been interested in a lot of the medieval art portraying people being tormented.

An education could be given which would sift individuals, discovering what they were good for, and supplying a method of assigning each to the work in life for which his nature fits him.

Today I finally overcame tryin’ to fit the world inside a picture frame.

The soul speaks to you in feelings. Listen... follow [and] honour your feelings.

We have to have films about action and violence and special effects. That's the sad part, but you know what? It's not me doing it.