If you can come to the Olympic Games and leave with a medal then that is alright.

I'm like a beast. I just take it out on the track.

I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.

When you guys are sleeping at night, I am out there working.

I wasnt born with a golden spoon in my mouth. It was a really tough life.

I'm the national champion of Jamaica now, I go into the Olympics like this.

The track is fast and I appreciate anything is possible.

When my coach gives me a program, I damage it.

I love London, I love the British people.

I work twice as hard as everybody else.

One thing I really hate is experience. Experience for me doesn't work. Everybody's talking about experience this, experience that.

I also realized by the way he actually cared that I could hurt him, really hurt him, if I wanted to. That's a power no one should ever realize. It's toxic.

The intensity of the love of the upright is not so much to be judged by what it appears as by what the upright long for. It is our daily lament that we cannot love enough.

Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence.

If the whole U.S. was like Silicon Valley, we'd be in good shape. But now, the entire U.S. is not driven by technology, is not driven by innovation.

Some movies I see today have the most dramatic plot points but the actors are not playing them dramatically.

Yes, I know. Death sits with his key in my lock. Not one day is taken for granted. Even nursery rhymes have put me in hock.

In summer, intolerable closeness; in winter, unendurable cold. All the floors were rotten. Filth on the floors an inch thick; one could slip and fall.

I taught writing classes at the University of Pennsylvania for a number of years and I realized that all you can do is encourage people and give them assignments and hope they will write them.

The more statistically improbable a thing is, the less we can believe that it just happened by blind chance. Superficially, the obvious alternative to chance is an intelligent Designer.

Krishna insisted on outer cleanliness and inner cleansing. Clean clothes and clean minds are an ideal combination.