Ever since grammar school, I knew I wanted to be famous - I always wanted to be a singer.

Going jogging makes me feel powerful and free - like Rocky!

The only way you can sustain a permanent change is to create a new way of thinking, acting, and being.

Chocolate is what I love. I have it every day.

Sometimes God makes better choices for us than we could have ever made for ourselves.

Don't block your blessings. Don't let doubt stop you from getting where you want to be.

You have to accept the plan and realize that if you slip, and you might, you can’t use that as a reason to give up or stop.

If it’s meant for me, it will be.' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.

God uses people to help others. I only pray my faith is strong enough to get me through what I have to face.

Loving yourself means caring enough to make the hard decisions in your life.

I hope that when I'm 80 years old, people will still be talking about my wedding.

It can be liberating to get fired because you realize the world doesn't end. There's other ways to make money, better jobs.

There is such a gauntlet of risk that you go through when you climb up to Everest.

If you wanna find out 101 things to do with plums, heh, read your in-flight magazine.

I know what wanting and craving adventure feels like, I can really relate to that.

If the power goes out, business stops... whether you sell roses or youre a big manufacturer.

However fragmented the world, however intense the national rivalries, it is an inexorable fact that we become more interdependent every day.

We control the machine. At one point the machine controlled us.

Most obstacles are inspiration.

I love my mother, but there has been, ever since my boyhood, a sort of coldness of intercourse between us, such as is apt to come between people of strong feelings.

Unfortunately, I don't usually get to see much outside the Olympics as I compete almost every day. I have been to Rio a few times and got a tour of the sites. It is a spectacular city.