Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.

Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

Peace, unity and harmony!

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

My story has resonated around the world. I am just Catherine, I just like to run. And I'll run with opportunities.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

And now that I have been scammed once, I felt like it could not happen to me again.

Dogs were like the worst drunks - lunging at crotches then pissing over other people's shoes.

Lightning is the shorthand of a storm, and tells of chaos.

[Jason Hale] is an upstanding guy. Yeah, I like him. He's good.

I’ve always preferred having girlfriends to just seeing people.

I was inspired by [Michelangelo] Antonioni's Red Desert - very big and moody.

There is no difference between knowledge and temperance; for he who knows what is good and embraces it, who knows what is bad and avoids it, is learned and temperate.

It takes a special kind of stubbornness to succeed as an entrepreneur

It is so much safer not to feel, not to let the world touch me.

The hearts of men are their books; events are their tutors; great actions are their eloquence.