I always separated sports and my personal life.

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

I want to be remembered as a person who felt there was no limitation to what the human body and mind can do and be the inspiration to lead people to do things they never hoped to do.

Channel your energy. Focus.

It's all about the journey, not the outcome.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

You can only become great through the power of time conversion.

Labor is one of the processes by which A acquires property for B.

Artists are not your art monkeys. They are your collaborators. They should be given all due consideration to follow their journey.

It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.

Psychologically our thought-apart from its expression in words-is only a shapeless and indistinct mass.

I think that there is absolutely no free market in modern industrial states.

Both my partner and I did not get into cooking so that we could wear ugly chef's coats and stuff. We dress sexy in the kitchen.

Evolution is fundamentally hostile to religion.

Perhaps we could write code to optimize code, then run that code through the code optimizer?

Looking at the earth from afar you realize it is too small for conflict and just big enough for co-operation.