I think I was a pretty selfish athlete.

I've been a pretty selfish mom and a very unselfish athlete for about three years now and it's time to put my family first. It's probably time to move on.

I appreciate my time in the gym.

Weight lifting is the easiest part of my day.

I'm looking forward to being a mom and a wife and a business owner.

Compared to the challenges or raising an autistic child, weightlifting is a relief.

aloneness is a bad fiddle I play against my own / burning

You are one of the rare people who can separate your observation from your preconception. You see what is, where most people see what they expect.

Knowledge is of two kinds: that which is absorbed and that which is heard. And that which is heard does not profit if it is not absorbed.

People think you have to be tortured or miserable to write, but I'm finding that I get inspired a lot more these days before I'm happy.

Afraid? Me? A man who's licked his weight in wild caterpillars?

I believe that the high rates of property crime (and some of the increase in violent crime) are part of the price you pay for freedom.

A mistake in judgment isn't fatal, but too much anxiety about judgment is.

Jesus, all for Jesus, all I am and have and ever hope to be. All of my ambitions, hopes and plans, I surrender these into Your hands... For it's only in Your will that I am free.

The great American game should be an unrelenting war of nerves.

There is never much trouble in any family where the children hope someday to resemble their parents.