I can't say that I have a biggest inspiration because I look at all positive inspirations. My mom, my dad and my coach, too, inspire me. No one is bigger. I just use it all and take it and use it.

If you stay consistent to the sport you will eventually get good, but you have to just want it more to be the best.

I hate to lose and even as an amateur I won every tournament I was in.

People want to criticize everything you do. People criticize Pacquiao, Mayweather or Obama, everyone that is at the top of their game.

Democracy is in the blood of the Muslims, who look upon complete equality of mankind, and believe in fraternity, equality, and liberty.

God loves his work and therefore wills to preserve it. Creation and preservation are two aspects of the one activity of God.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

I think one reason I'm drawn to expansive syntax is that arias are so often exercises in extending language as a means of intensifying feeling.

The good thing about people really is their iffy-ness and dodginess, isnt it?

You learn in life that the only person you can really correct and change is yourself.

Those who grieve find comfort in weeping and in arousing their sorrow until the body is too tired to bear the inner emotions.

I don't think there is a national pasttime. Watching TV is a national pasttime. Really. If there is a national pasttime, it is watching TV.

It's crazy how we always hate the things closest to us.

The ostentation of our love, which, left unshown, is often left unloved.