Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.

What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.

Don't follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because, you are the future of tomorrow.

I've had asthma my entire life.

If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.

I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.

The only person who can stop you from reaching your goals is you.

You can't be a rebel without the scars that come with it. Truth is, some days scars are just as ugly as they are beautiful.

Avoiding life, avoiding making any concrete plans for your life--that's just one way you're pretending you can keep bad things from happening to you again.

What humbugs we are who pretend to live for Beauty and never see the Dawn!

Miserable Orpheus who, turning to lose his Eurydice, beholds her for the first time as well as the last.

I may think that hornets do not have an ideal social organization. But I know better than to poke their nest.

Oh, the cleverness of me!

Today each composer is not only involved in aesthetics, but he's actually trying to create his own language.

The cross alone is our theology.

Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.

The wonders of nature are endless.