I got my tattoo a year before the Olympic trials, so I kind of used it as motivation to make the Olympic team the following year. I look at it every time I dive and it's kind of a little fun thing.

Every year it changes, sometimes I'm good at the 50m, sometimes I'm terrible, it really depends. I'm still not sure what my best event is.

When someone gives me either a democratic or republican pamphlet, I throw it in their face. I’m a librarian, damn it! We only take book donations.

You cannot move forward in your life if you do not allow yourself to move.

Once a woman turns against you, forget it. They can love you, then something turns in them. They can watch you dying in a gutter, run over by a car, and they'll spit on you.

It takes something of a poet to apprehend and get into the depth, the lusciousness, the spiritual life of a great poem. And so we must be in some way like God in order that we may see God as He is.

And a puzzle is for the piecing together, especially for the young, who still believe it can be done.

Character is what you have when nobody is looking.

Wealth cannot make a life, but Love.

Books are fountains of knowledge and also help the heart find the way to use that knowledge with wisdom

Get not your friends by bare compliments but by giving them sensible tokens of your love.

[People] don't know the talent and I want to show them.