I don't intend to stay around any longer than I feel I can be No. 1.

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.

(On surviving on the raft for 47 days) We had truly made it on a wing and prayer.

Isn't it sad that so often it takes facing death to appreciate life and each other fully?

A man that is born falls into a dream like a man who falls into the sea.

How long is a girl a child? She is a child, and then one morning you wake up she's a woman, and a dozen different people of whom you recognize none.

Deployment of broadband may be hampered by market failures in rural and remote areas. In such cases, well targeted state aid may therefore be appropriate.

Success takes an investment in time, dedication, and sacrifice. This is true education. It is a process.

He who, in an enlightened and literary society, aspires to be a great poet, must first become a little child.

It is very necessary to have markers of beauty left in a world seemingly bent on making the most evil ugliness.

I want you to feel what I felt. I want you to know why story-truth is truer sometimes than happening-truth.

The beauty about living in Atlanta is that there aren't too many paparazzi here; you can just relax. And that really works for me and my children.