Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

I want to be remembered as a person who felt there was no limitation to what the human body and mind can do and be the inspiration to lead people to do things they never hoped to do.

Channel your energy. Focus.

It's all about the journey, not the outcome.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.

What's the point of all this magic, if no one really knows how to use it? But I guess the same could be said about life. Which is another form of magic, only less showy.

Success is a strategy. Success is planned and also implemented, its never by accident, it's certainly not by chance either (so keep working it! )

The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

All these songs honestly explore the ups and downs of my reality.

I emphasise the following: don't, whatever happens, be anyone but yourself. Don't act anyone else - that would be fatal.

I never feel lonely in the kitchen. Food is very friendly.

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

Nothing is great but the inexhaustible wealth of nature.

Silence is the first thing within the power of the enslaved to shatter. From that shattering, everything else spills forth.

You can't just switch off your feelings because the other person did.