Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

I think track is still one of the most exciting participant sports, but we haven't been able to capitalize on that excitement through television and the print media.

In Jamaica High School in New York, my coach was Larry Ellis, and he said I could probably make the Olympic team. He gave me something to shoot for.

Novelists are basically inviting their readers to play a game of pretend. That's what fiction is: a game of pretend.

Just don't be afraid to be who you are and you will be successful.

You have to get lost to find your true self.

Doing nothing requires effort. Over time, that effort is greater than the effort necessary to improve, or move somewhere better. The trick is to redirect energy.

I've always said I'd rather see a club that's won 10 or 12 in a row than a club that's lost 10 or 12 in a row because they're tougher.

Machines are on track to be on par with human intelligence in less than 15 years.

Smog is affecting larger parts of China, and environmental pollution has become a major problem, which is natures red-light warning against the model of inefficient and blind development.

A man can't do more than he can - but he can at least do that much.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.