Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.

It really means a lot that I won the gold medal - but I woke up the next morning expecting to feel different. I felt the same.

I always know where the scissors are.

And there is such a thing as a decathlon high. It's like a rock rolling down hill, picking up momentum. You get better and better.

It took me time to realize that the men who won Olympic gold medals in the decathlon are just men, just like me.

Try everything, because you're never sure what you're going to be great at.

To me, the decathlon is its own little society and I am part of that culture.

When I was little, I wasn't allowed to put sugar on my breakfast cereal because it made me so hyper.

Breaking the world record in '92 was a very special personal moment, but I'd say my favorite moment as a decathlete was winning the Olympic gold medal.

It's important for me to think I'm mixed-race.

Poetry is an art of expressing the unknown music of our inner feelings and emotions in our known language.

Writing fiction is a way of expressing feelings and revealing a certain truth about life, goals, dreams and desires.

Sorrowful and great is the artist's destiny.

Synchronicity occurs at the intersection of your awareness, response, perspective, and action.

Without desire how is it possible to make a story?

The worst part of it is you don't know if he's barking at an owl, the moon or a burglar!" "That's one of the drawbacks of a limited vocabulary!

When each elder or pastor has his will aligned with the Lord's, we waste no time arguing for our own.

People do not know what an absolute extremist left-wing radical Tim Kaine has been his entire life and they're going to do everything they can to try to mask and cover that up .

I love first times. I want my whole life to be composed of them. Life is only interesting if life is wide.

Enthusiasm is not contrary to reason; it is reason - on fire.