As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.

Running became boring because it's so predictable. I got to a point where I knew what my competition could do.

I think I've seen the fastest miler ever. His name is Morceli.

When it's pouring rain and you're bowling along through the wet, there's satisfaction in knowing you're out there and the others aren't.

I go to seek a Great Perhaps.

The security of the woman is the security of society.

The soul is a living, dynamic part of each person. It exists as consciousness and therefore must be found in consciousness.

The fairest things have fleetest end, Their scent survives their close: But the rose's scent is bitterness To him that loved the rose.

Once human beings realize something can be done, they're not satisfied until they've done it.

I've been overwhelmed; I was a single mother for a time.

Every day, TV, newspapers, and the Internet bombard us with a message that we're destroying the earth. Ice caps are melting, rivers are dying, polar bears are drowning, and trees are doing something.

One might say that science itself, and civilization and art, are all about different orderings of the world - to contain it, and to make it in some sense intelligible, communicable. And bearable.

I'm right here. This is who I really am. I'm not pretending.

The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.