I'd rather worship bloody bones than the murderer who makes them.

Rachelle choked on a laugh. “You were always stronger.”“You, ” said Amélie, “were always foolish enough to think that mattered.

If I'm damned, what's the point of pretending that I'm not?

The same wolfish greed beats in your heart: to have what you will, and kill for it.

He stared at her a moment longer, then laughed softly. “I wouldn’t love you if you were any weaker, ” he said, and let go of her.

Don’t allow people to come in and out of your life when it only benefits them.

Desperate people lose the thing that makes them human beings. They lose their heart. Anger and hate fill them so that they act like animals.

I was always surrounded by expectation from the very first race I ran as a 5-year-old.

My place is in the sunlight of opportunity.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

Your direction is more important than your speed.

People should be highly sceptical of anyone's including their own, ability to predict the future, and instead pursue strategies that can survive whatever may occur.

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

I just love it when people say I can't do it, there's nothing that makes me feel better because all my life, people have said that I wasn't going to make it.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.