I may be small, but I've got friends that make me ten feet tall.

It's all about the spirit. Every man, woman and child should be seen as a spirit first, before anything else. We are all spirits in the first instance.

What you don’t know fills the infinite universe. What you do know only fills your mind.

It was ridiculous really. I had just won a major race despite not being in top form, yet I was going to dope.

For me, I try and be authentic in my choices and follow my instincts, and I think it's a valuable message for women in today's society to learn to love yourself.

I surround myself with a talented group of people that are opinionated and interesting. I try to remain very open to what others have to say.

My grandfather was not a musician but he was an artist - a painter, a decorative painter.

Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.

When design springs from an understanding of the people who are going to use a product, you begin to see forms that you would never have imagined.

Nature is telling us that if you don't respect the environment then you are living with artificial needs and a consumerism that is destroying the very conditions we need to survive.

The differences between the received wisdom, the standard version of events, and the facts on the ground may be subtle or they may be stark, even profound.