I'm loving motherhood. It's way harder than soccer, but I love a challenge.

My parents and my grandfather on my mom's side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.

You're going to make mistakes in life. It's what you do after the mistakes that counts.

Never assume greatness is for someone else. Imagine every day that you too can do great things. Have the courage to take the challenge, make the mistakes, and move forward.

To be honest with you, I never looked at soccer as a sacrifice.

The thing I can say about Japan is they were progressive for a country that is very male dominant.

I think there are a lot of things that soccer does in the communities that transcend the soccer field.

And to learn, you have to be willing to push yourself.

Well there are two things: Number one is, make sure you always enjoy yourself, because when you enjoy yourself, you'll learn, you'll want more information, you'll push yourself.

So I'm still doing my best to stay in shape and hope that opportunity will come back to me.

I was a part of Backyard Soccer, and I hear that I score a lot of goals in it.

We carry the dead with us only until we die too, and then it is we who are borne along for a little while, and then our bearers in their turn drop, and so on into the unimaginable generations.

Coach Godsey is a brilliant mind, a great teacher, and it's been fun learning from him so far.

In movies and in television the robots are always evil. I guess I am not into the whole brooding cyberpunk dystopia thing.

When children attend schools that place a greater value on discipline and security than on knowledge and intellectual development, they are attending prep schools for prison.

you have to play it out sometimes.

As a writer, you should have a sticky soul; the act of continually taking things in should be as much a part of you as your hair color.

The truth is that I know very few novelists who have been satisfied with the adaptation of their books for the screen.

Wit is a dangerous weapon, even to the possessor, if he knows not how to use it discreetly.

Things happen, but things happen and you follow... your heart is too dramatic, but you follow.

We're repeating the same things all the time; there aren't many new things happening in this life.