I realize that I'm in the twilight of my career.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

When you give your best, that's all you can ask of yourself, all that people can ask of you and all that god desires from you. No matter what the result, walk with your head held high.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

I am actually nondenominational.

I am just trying to get biblically stronger.

If you believe what you say, words become reality.

There’s a ghost of a dream that you don’t even try to shake free off because you’re too in love with the way she haunts you.

The great appeal of film is its relatability.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

The League of Nations is the greatest humbug in history. They cannot even protect a little nation like Armenia. They do nothing but pass useless resolutions.

That which has quelled me, lives with me, Accomplice in catastrophe.

Subtract from the New Testament the miraculous and highly impossible, and what will be the remainder?

I certainly think it's important to speak up and say how unacceptable Donald Trump is. I'm always more than willing to do that.

We need women at all levels, including the top, to change the dynamic, reshape the conversation, to make sure women’s voices are heard and heeded, not overlooked and ignored.

I am looking for the novelists whose writing is an extension of their intellect rather than an extension of their neurosis.