Believe it or not, Twitter calms me down. I enjoy interacting with people.

A failure isn't a failure if it prepares you for success tomorrow.

Greatness finds us by obstacles in front of us. I don’t look at hurdles as obstacles blocking my path but opportunities to overcome.

There's always a point where you get knocked down. But I draw on what I've learned on the track: If you work hard, things will work out.

I'm inspired by failure. The process of defeat – picking yourself back up again is the hardest thing in the world.

Sometimes bad things are going to happen in your life, and those things can make you stronger if you just learn how to get over them.

I never have prayed to win a gold medal at Olympics and never will. The Lord is my Shepard and I shall not want. May His will be done.

A businessman needs a laptop. Athletes need massages and the right diet.

Harder than training for the Olympics, harder than graduating from college, has been to stay a virgin before marriage.

Stepping on that line for me, it will be about facing my fears.

Running was like the friend that never left. It was just always there.

If I had a single flower for every time I think about you, I could walk forever in my garden.

The individual seeks out the heat of the crowd, in this century, to protect himself against the cold emanating from the corpse of the world.

You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake.

Hillary Clinton wants to approve the Trans-Pacific Partnership; that deal will be a disaster for North Carolina, for every state. Your state.

Sweetened ice tea is one of the things I love about the South, right up there with homemade biscuits and cheese grits.

Try to arrange things so that you can have a reasonable bit of quiet every day.

Yeah. I do get incredibly anxious. Almost borderline panic attacks.

If you would ask me what my ideal process is, I would say, long pre-production, long production and long post-production.

To know that you are a prisoner of your mind is the dawn of wisdom.

With battlements that on their restless fronts Bore stars.