To craftsmanship we shall add statesmanship in the capitol of peace.

The first draft is just you telling yourself the story.

Don’t let mediocre people talk you out of your dreams

While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.

I have learnt that we expect honesty and genuineness from others, while not being honest and genuine with our own self.

PRESCRIPTION A bitof virtuewill neverhurt you.

Revenge is the concern of those who are at some point or other beaten. I am not beaten, I told myself. No, not beaten. And victory is far more interesting to contemplate than revenge.

Remind me one day to teach you how to achieve a sneer, Hugh. Yours is too pronounced, and thus but a grimace. It should be but a faint curl of the lips.

It took putting one foot in front of the other every single day to get through it to the point where I made it back on the team and won a gold medal in 2008.

I mean, people don't know what race I am. They never know if I'm Hawaiian or Italian or Mexican or Spanish or white. I could play Jewish, I could play anything.

My father always said working for somebody else never amounted to anything. You have to be an entrepreneur