The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.

Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.

Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.

Get involved in everything you've ever dreamed of doing.

I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.

Love is not about two people doing things similar. It is about two people doing things differently to cover one another's flaws, and making it a perfect whole.

I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.

You forget that sometimes people are out there to get you - they don't even have a reason.

I love fictional characters...they can't break your heart.

Social media is the most disruptive form of communication humankind has seen since the last disruptive form of communications, email.

In my songs, I'm not saying something that's never been said before. The have lyrics aren't going to blow people away. It's the emotion and the melody that drive it home.

Our entire much-praised technological progress, and civilization generally, could be compared to an axe in the hand of a pathological criminal.

No one but a fool is always right.

Tune into the presence of miracles, and in an instant, life can be transformed into a dazzling experience, more wondrous and exciting than we could even imagine.

Naturam expellas furca, tamen usque revenit. You can drive nature out with a pitchfork, she will nevertheless come back.

A good marriage is like Dr Who's Tardis: small and banal from the outside but spacious and interesting from within.

No matter how hard you're going, you can always go harder.

Metaphysical problems about "mind" versus "matter" arise only from epistemological confusions.