The most challenging aspect of the decathlon is not the events themselves, but how you train to become the best 100-meter runner you are on the same day that you're the best 1,500-meter runner.

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.

For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.

I'm saying goodbye to people's perception of me and who I am, I'm not saying goodbye to me, because this has always been me.

Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

It hurts every day when you practice hard. Plus, when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

When you accept yourself you are free from the need for others to accept you.

To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy.

It's not just about me. It's about all of us, accepting one another. We're all different... That's a good thing.

I firmly believe that deep in their soul everyone has a champion that can overcome obstacles and do great things.

See beyond the eyes can see, believe beyond the inspiration!

Writing a novel is like going a great distance to take a small shit.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

I'm odd looking. Sometimes I think I look like a funny muppet.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

We have an arsenal of ideas about land use possibly as dangerous to human life on the planet as the use of nuclear arms.

AIDS is the biggest challenge, the major disaster facing this country and we would have wished for something more specific and far-reaching.

When you are going through something that heavy, for me anyway, I couldn't imagine writing about anything else. I always tend to write about what's most prevalent in my mind.

What is harder than stone? What more soft than water? Nevertheless hard though the rock be, it is hollowed by the wave.

Christ's public life extended only over eighteen months, and for this he had silently been preparing himself for thirty - two years.