I learned to listen and listen very well. It helped me athletically and in the classroom as well.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

There are few restrictions on your life with asthma, as long as you take care of yourself.

What people need to know is that asthma isn't a minor 'wheeze-disease.' It kills over five thousand people in America every year, and I could've been one of them.

Age is no barrier. It's a limitation you put on your mind.

I was diagnosed with asthma when I was 18 during my freshman year at UCLA. I refused to accept it - and I hid it from my coaches and teammates. But ignoring my problem didn't make it go away.

Don't follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because, you are the future of tomorrow.

I've had asthma my entire life.

Girls playing sports is not about winning gold medals. It's about self-esteem, learning to compete and learning how hard you have to work in order to achieve your goals.

If I stop to kick every barking dog I am not going to get where I'm going.

I maintained my edge by always being a student; you will always have something new to learn.

If your Ipad can do it better than you, then it is not a skill.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in continue firm and constant.

One thing is certain. At some point global investors will lose confidence in our (U.S.) easy dollars and debt-financed prosperity, and then the chickens will come home to roost.

I don't get tired, because every time a woman doesn't die or doesn't get beaten or doesn't get raped or doesn't get honor-killed or doesn't get acid-burned, it's a huge victory.

Theater is dangerously open to repetition. Its exciting when you hit on a new way.

Your future is being determined by you right now, depending on the choices you make.

Being a control freak makes us tense, stressed out, and unpleasant to be with.

If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable, rather than its literal narrative.

He who feels that the vice of avarice has got hold of him, should not wish to observe fasts of supererogation, but to give alms.

That strange blend of the commercial traveller, the missionary and the barbarian conqueror, which was the American abroad.