It's easier to limit yourself, but if you do, you will never reach your true potential.

It's important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent it (child abuse) by not letting it be a secret.

If you want it and you dream about it...there's nothing that's going to stop you.

There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.

It was something I really wanted to do. I can't imagine what it will be like to carry the flag and walk through the doors of the stadium. I'm thrilled to lead the team.

What a great opportunity to come to my fifth Olympics, be flag bearer and also be a returning medalist so I have a platform to talk about something and hopefully do some good in this world.

People always getting ready for tomorrow. I didn't believe in that. Tomorrow wasn't getting ready for them. It didn't even know they were there.

Oh how unhappy is the prince served by such men who are so easily corrupted.

The man who passes the sentence should swing the sword. Look her in the eyes before you kill her. See her tears, hear her last words. You owe her that much at least." - Eddard Stark

gun registration is no more complex than the Income Tax system.

I am told that the first comprehensible word I uttered as a child was 'home.

I have no sponsors because I am not blond, tall and slim enough

It's hard to make it one piece of advice. For me, what's most important is you kind of choose your point of view.

Back when the country was strong, back before Elvis and before the Vietnam war came along.

We haven't done anything. That has devolved into a partisan bickering of the kind that says Nero was fiddling while Rome burned.

I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.