I love overcoming challenges and fear.

I love chocolate chip cookies - really anything with chocolate will do!

There's nothing like overcoming something that scares you so much. Nothing feels better.

I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.

I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

I was vegetarian for a long time, and in the last four years I started eating chicken and fish. I feel like it really built up my strength a lot.

The women are stepping up their degree of difficulty more than the men. A lot of us do the same dives as the men now.

...the depth or humaneness of our love depends on the wideness of our souls.

The song says respect yourself.But I would rather respect another and then have them respect me in return.

For me, working out is nothing to do with looks. It's to let it all out - the stress, the self-consciousness - you think less; it makes you more centred.

Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.

It was terrible. All of the things we couldn't share. The room was filled with conversations we weren't having.

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation, because the new is always left in the place of the old.

We need to consolidate our enlargement agenda but be cautious with new commitments.

"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

When I went from being an academic to being a member of the community of writers some of my former colleagues did look on me with a certain resentment.