Staying humble has always been really important to me, and always being proud of what you're representing.

Don't look at the big picture as the only achievement. Start with set, smart goals and work up to something bigger.

I think breakfast is really important to get a great start to the day, so I can have enough energy to train and everything.

I usually balance school by doing online classes and regular classes - that has helped me a lot, and I'm able to get my schoolwork done while I'm traveling too.

To have this gold medal around my neck is an indescribable feeling. I'm the happiest person right now.

I feel I have proved myself just as much as everybody else does. I usually don't think about the past too much. I just try to perform the routines I have been practicing.

I like experimenting with different color lip glosses and lipsticks and things like that.

It was so much fun being in the Olympic Village and meeting all the athletes.

From dead plant matter to nematodes to bacteria, never underestimate the cleverness of mushrooms to find new food!

Cubism was an attack on the perspective that had been known and used for 500 years. It was the first big, big change. It confused people: they said, 'Things don't look like that!'

Sometimes the slow ones blame the active for the delay.

Said the monk: "All these mountains and rivers and the earth and stars - where do they come from?" Said the master: "Where does your question come from?"

Our identity is fictional, written by parents, relatives, education, society.

I'm just a normal girl who really enjoys her job, and so you have to take the other things that come with being in the public eye.

Being in the Spice Girls was an insane experience.

I love stories and I don't like to repeat myself. And I look for new stuff, and as they say it gets harder.

I knew Glenn Frey. He called me up in 1977 and told me The Eagles were looking for a bass player, preferably someone who could write and had a high voice. That was me.

It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.