No leadership, no ideas. Not even enough imagination to thump someone in the line-up when the ref wasn't looking.

You cannot change the past, but you can make a difference now

No matter what people tell you, words and ideas can change the world.

It is almost impossible to watch a sunset and not dream.

I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It's not. The worst thing in life is to end up with people who make you feel all alone.

Life is a carousel. It goes up and down. All U gotta do is just stay on.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you're very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

There was never a night or a problem that could defeat sunrise or hope.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

If you want to be a writer, you have to keep writing, all the time, and when you're not writing, be thinking about and planning writing.

A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone.

I would encourage the next commander in chief to be more cooperative and communicative with Congress, particularly when entering a conflict.

If you said to me, 'Lie down on that concrete floor and fall asleep,' I could do it. I can sleep anywhere at any time of day on any surface.

I never wear sneakers. I don't feel comfortable in them.

Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.

Even animals who sometimes seem unlovable to humans, have also feelings. They can suffer just as we do.

My father believed, like Pericles, that a mans genius could be easily judged by the number of unenlightened fools set in phalanx against his ideas.

The thing that my parents have always taught me is that beauty comes from the inside, and also that beauty stems from health.