All my life, I've dreamed in gold.

It takes a lot of hard work and dedication just like any pro sport. Especially for beach volleyball you don't have to be tall or as fast as other sports. You just have to have the skills.

The more colorful the food, the better. I try to add color to my diet, which means vegetables and fruits.

My dad would tell me to, 'Play for those who couldn't play.' So my motivation is for people who struggle in life daily.

I would like to instill in people just to work hard. As long as they keep at it, their dreams will happen.

We're a team, and just by the nature of our sport, we're always promoted together. I think we are definitely two different people with two different personalities, but we're always linked.

A lot of people had doubts. I tried to tell people I never had doubts.

It's important to just kind of get away from your sport until you miss it. It's about taking time to enjoy other aspects of life or learn new things. It helps rejuvenate.

I'm stronger than I think I am. Mentally, physically.

Over the years, I've made many sacrifices to win two Olympic gold medals and put together winning streaks that will never be broken.

I don't want to be put on a pedestal. I want to be known as a nice and normal person, but my skills are a little more excelled.

Being judgmental and condemning is not one of the gifts of the Spirit.

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

An anarchist is an uncomprimising liberal.

I'm still afraid of things, obviously - we're human. But I like that feeling of being afraid.

We must always remember to thank the CIA and the Army for LSD. That's what people forget.... They invented LSD to control people and what they did was give us freedom.

Forgiveness is beautiful and it feels good when someone gives that gift to you. But it's one thing for someone you wronged to forgive you. It was another to forgive yourself.

It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.

But you've changed,' I whisper. 'Haven't you?' It is the scorpian's nature to sting. Just because he has no opportunity doesn't mean that he cannot.

The Cross is the central event in time and eternity, and the answer to all the problems of both.

It's difficult to write a book where a character is on virtually every page of the book but you cannot refer to his or her gender. It gets rid of every his, her, she and he.