A bird, music and food -desert island items

As strong as my legs are, it is my mind that has made me a champion.

One of the main techniques I used was focusing on the goal and visualising myself competing in the race before the race started.

The only one who can beat me is me.

You learn as much from those who have failed as from those who have succeeded.

There's a complete difference between training for a specific event and goal and just training.

You can't control what the other athlete is going to do; you can't control anything except for your competition and how you execute the race or how you execute the task.

(Natural Talent + Opportunity) Hard Work = Success

The basis of self-discipline: Don't allow the edges to blur.

A good mentor offers directions and driving tips from the back seat. You still have to drive the car.

They think because I'm small, they can do what they want to do to me. But I'm not weak. If I lower my shoulder and they lower they're shoulder, they're going to go down.

Salvation is for sinners

City needs creativity to retain the high performers who have lived there for years as well as to attract new, interesting residents.

Because ultimately only the witness -- and not the actors -- knows the truth (Vyasa to Draupadi)

I always expose the apparatus. I show how the film was made. I acknowledge the filmmaker and the filmmaking.

It was the same night I gave myself to him completely, knowing that I would belong to him for as long as he wanted to keep me. And, as it turned out, even longer than that.

It's interesting for me to always make myself look very different.

A diet is when you watch what you eat and wish you could eat what you watch.

Just when you think you've got your life by the reins, that's when it's most likely to run away with you.

What it is is a type of editorialization, you know? This is self-portraiture. This is what you think about the world we live in.

Religion gives us a place to stand outside politics, and without it we're vulnerable to a system in which the state defines everything, which is the essence of tyranny.