The people are fed up with their elected officials playing the blame game and treating their political counterparts as enemies.

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

I want to be remembered as a person who felt there was no limitation to what the human body and mind can do and be the inspiration to lead people to do things they never hoped to do.

Channel your energy. Focus.

It's all about the journey, not the outcome.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

[Ever been kissed?]I want to know if you've

Life is not a maze where you have your eyes on the gaps, life is a beautiful journey, stop looking for the gaps.

If you watch a scary movie together, then the scariness is cut in half!

Being Latina to me is living your life like it's a big old fiesta!

If you want to support a writer, produce the first five plays he writes.

Verbing weirds language.

That the play is the tragedy, “Man,” And its hero, the Conqueror Worm.

Let me ... warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party.

Ice Cube is the piece of me that I give away to the public.

To be true to life, a novel must have an ending that is inevitable given the specific personalities of the characters involved. The novelist must not impose an ending upon them.