My mind is pretty made up that life for Cathy Freeman will be as an unmarried woman from now on.

You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.

Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.

Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

Peace, unity and harmony!

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

My story has resonated around the world. I am just Catherine, I just like to run. And I'll run with opportunities.

The scepticism which men affect towards their higher inspirations is often not an honest doubt, but a guilty negligence, and is a sign of narrow mind and defective wisdom.

Sometimes salvation is found in agony.

As we explore ways to bring price relief and bolster our country's energy independence, one significant energy source has emerged as a potential solution, hydrogen fuel cells.

History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.

Have you tried to drive a harpoon through a body? No? Tut, tut, my dear sir, you must really pay attention to these details.

What the proletariat needs is a bath of blood.

She unbent her mind afterwards - over a book.

We have learned to express the more delicate nuances of feeling by penetrating more deeply into the mysteries of harmony.

If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.

This looks like a job for inadvisably applied magic if ever I saw one.