I always wanted to be wealthy. I did.

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.

The future is a possibility

I knew I would lose my job when I accidentally set fire to my best friend’s house.

Age merely shows what children we remain.

I'm a goner, a kid who stays up half the night trying to figure out the horror of the world and trying to survive it.

No One Diets on Thanksgiving.

Is childhood ever long enough, or a happy time, or even a beautiful summer day? All of these carry the seeds of the same fierce mystery that we call death.

I'm a liberal. I'm confused when that became a bad word...

Think what a great world revolution will take place when ... [there are] millions of guys all over the world with rucksacks on their backs tramping around the back country.

I do not belive that Washington should do for the people wha they can do for themselves through local and private effort.

I would say that working with Ridley Scott makes the process of directing much more terrifying.