I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Never underestimate your ability to make someone else's life better - even if you never know it.

Fear is a part of everything you do ... You have to take great risks to get big rewards.

I am a firm believer that you don't achieve greatness on your own. There is always someone there to lend a hand

People wait in line to see me, saying there's plenty of living to be done even if you have an HIV diagnosis. People say they are 10- or 15-year survivors and still moving forward.

Well, unless you're Wayne Gretzky or Michael Jordan, you need the full support of your team.

Peak performance is meditation in motion.

I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama.

People who were close to me - family and friends - they knew about my sexuality.

To me, peanut butter is the breakfast of champions!

Mom was the one who taught me unconditional love. With Dad, I'd always felt there was something to live up to - expectations. But in the last year, we had a wonderful relationship.

I was quite depressed two weeks ago when I spent an afternoon at Brentano's Bookshop in New York and was looking at the kind of books most people read. Once you see that you lose all hope.

It is inevitable that there will come a time when mankind will go out more at night and stay indoors during the day to avoid harmful solar rays.

Life doesn't get more real than having a newborn at home.

My mom always wanted me be a ballerina, and I was just adamant that I wanted to be a track star. I wanted nothing to do with ballet.

Reaching 50, I've started to conjure up thoughts of my own mortality.

As long as I don't commit any crimes, you have no right to judge me except by my performance as a professional. On that level, you're welcome to think whatever you want about me.

Writing is an antisocial act.

It is never possible to predict a physical occurrence with unlimited precision.

It would be an unspeakable advantage, both to the public and private, if men would consider that great truth, that no man is wise or safe but he that is honest.

Though it make the unskillful laugh, cannot but make the judicious grieve.