I think I'll stick to what I'm used to, my principles, and that is team Number 1 and individual Number 2.

If you're going to learn a new language, you can't try to be perfect. You'll stop yourself from talking. You just have to let go.

Please don't let the illegal ivory trade orphan even more baby elephants.

No matter whether you are new or an old team member, you need time to adjust to one another.

Sport is the best means of communication between people from different religions and countries.

Sports teach you how to be quick. Injuries teach you how to slow down.

There is a phrase in Chinese, 'Resolve is victory.'

Putting our ecosystem in great peril is certainly not a part of Chinese culture that I know.

Friendship first, competition second.

Sometimes it can feel like there are a billion people on my shoulders.

Endangered species are our friends.

What is this slow blue dream of living, and this fevered death by dreaming?

They weren't tears of sadness or even tears of joy. I was just overflowing. Like so many things since I'd been here, I didn't yet understand it, but I felt it.

Death is a mirror that gives us a glimpse of who we really are.Death is a rearview mirror that puts the past into perspective.

AN ABSOLUTELY VITAL FILM. Exacting, enraging and revelatory. A clear, temperate and devastating account of high level arrogance and incompetence.

All of our miseries prove our greatness. They are the miseries of a dethroned monarch.

The creation of art is not the fulfillment of a need but the creation of a need. The world never needed Beethoven's Fifth Symphony until he created it. Now we could not live without it.

There can be distractions, but if you're isolated from the heart of the Games, the Olympics become just another competition.

I'd listened to [Ornette Coleman] all kinds of ways. I listened to him high and I listened to him cold sober. I even played with him. I think he's jiving baby.

The worst thing about not being president anymore is I was disoriented for three weeks because nobody every played a song when I walked in.

We are the slaves of slaves