To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.

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.

I don't have to be the smartest person in the room, I just have to be in the room.

Q. But it seems to me there are circumstances that simply induce one to have negative emo

The only thing worse than not knowing where she belonged...was knowing where she didn't.

My mother's death put me in touch with my most savage self. As I've grown up and come to terms with her death and accepted it, the pieces of her that I keep don't exist materially.

Be yourself on stage. Nobody else can be you and you have the law of supply and demand covered.

Feminism doesn't need re-branding. It names a problem and it is an uncomfortable truth for many

Find happiness in making others happy.

I don't know if I'll always be a pastor.

Nobody reads a mystery to get to the middle. They read it to get to the end. If it's a letdown, they won't buy anymore. The first page sells that book. The last page sells your next book.

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.