Looking back, I'm so proud to have gone to five Olympics - I believe only three other Americans have achieved that.

Keep your dreams alive. Understand to achieve anything requires faith and belief in yourself, vision, hard work, determination, and dedication. Remember all things are possible for those who believe.

It's not what other people believe you can do, it's what you believe.

You can never give up or get down on yourself. A true champion keeps his or her chin up and always takes life one race at a time.

Remember, all things are possible to those who believe!

Whenever faced with a challenge, I dig deep within myself and summon my spiritual and physical forces. This gives me the focus, determination, perseverance, and support I need to succeed.

I was diagnosed with Graves' disease, an illness of the thyroid gland. Instead of surgery, I was given radiation treatment.

My life is a blessing every day that I get up. God saved my feet. How am I not going to use them?

I have to be cautious, have my thyroid levels checked, and as long as I do that, I'm fine.

You have to find that love within yourself. If you love yourself, you feel good about yourself, and sports help you feel good about yourself.

I find motivation within myself. I run track not from a competitive Nature, but because I'm a very goal-oriented person.

He brooded on how close destruction always was to all creatures, animals as well as humans, and he realized that there is nothing we can predict or know for certain in this world except death.

Love me, then, or hate me, as you will, " I said at last, "you have my full and free forgiveness: ask now for God's, and be at peace.

Not having to own a car has made me realize what a waste of time the automobile is.

But the disappearance of the effort to let go is precisely the disappearance of the separate thinker, of the ego trying to watch the mind without interfering.

If you have Darwin, Christ and Nietzsche, they're all going to talk at once. You need somebody who listens.

As an actor, you people-watch, you observe. And the more famous you become, the sad thing is you lose the ability to do that. Instead of people-watching, you become the focus of attention.

I am not the Jeff Sessions my detractors have tried to create. I am not a racist. I am not insensitive to blacks.

Fear, the worst of all enemies can be effectively cured by forced repetition of acts of courage

The faults of husbands are often caused by the excess virtues of their wives.

Right now, the government is spending billions of dollars supporting the problem-makers in the U.S. economy - the polluters, despoilers, incarcerators, and warmongers.