For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.

It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.

If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.

My life was very Japanese.

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

It's not the amount of Bible you read, it's the amount of Bible you believe.

I believe in fate and I believe that things happen for a reason, but I don't think that there's a high power, necessarily. I believe in karma very much though.

Throughout the world today there is a gowing awareness of the failings of the Western model of development and a corresponding desire to look for more human-scale, ecological ways of living.

I started with shoes, and with hard work and discipline, the business prospered. I moved to the department store business and again, things went well.

The perpetual hunger to be beautiful and that thirst to be loved which is the real curse of Eve.

A psycho, they called me. They were right. They were wrong. They couldn't come close to my fire. They couldn't touch my heart.

Now is the time to act or get stuck with a bland, boring, career politician who will lose to Barack Obama.

I remain committed to improving the government services to which Hudson Valley veterans are entitled.

Gide and I have attained such perfect intellectual communion that I experience the appropriate labor pains for every thought he gives birth to!

Love is not the limitation; love is the flying.