Fortune helps the intrepid and abandons the cowards. I am the daughter of a man who did not know of fear. Whatever may come, I am resolved to follow that course until death.

If I were to write the story of my life, I would shock the world.

I bend my knee to no man. Unless I choose to.

If I have to lose, although I am a woman, I want to lose in a manly way.

Could I write all, the world would turn to stone.

When you feel life at crossroads, you need higher perspective view.

Society can serve its citizens only to the extent that it knows them.

The more horrifying this world becomes the more art becomes abstract.

My father was a teacher, and there were teachers all around, his friends, they were working for the Government and their behaviour was within strictly limited areas.

This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.

My big philosophy is: Try and work with good people, because the process is your life. That's going to be really, really hard. I'm glad I learned the lesson, 'Failure is OK.

Now, there are some who would like to rewrite history - revisionist historians is what I like to call them.

The only time a message (label) can scare us is if we think there is such a thing, and that such a thing is a disgrace.

When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught.

The Declaration of Independence . . . [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man.