I never expected to win three medals in the Athens Olympic Games. Of course, I would rather have won one gold.

We judge others by their actions and ourselves by our intentions. We need to offer grace to all, because we all need a little grace.

Some people are like popcorn: they will only succeed when under heat or pressure.

The thing is there have been American movies that are similar to Solaris, like Alien had a lot of things that are similar, although it's also got the horror element.

I listen to mostly-classical music, but mostly by radio - I'm not an audiophile.

We tend to overestimate what we can do in a short period, and underestimate what we can do over a long period.

The government is good at one thing. It knows how to break your legs, and then hand you a crutch and say, "See if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk".

We couldn't be everywhere, we couldn't see everything, and it was inevitable that some things would escape us.

Often, people take herbal medicines for a physical response, but what they find is that the body also responds in an emotional way to the plant medicine that they're taking.

I used to be a person that wasn't able to laugh at myself easily.

So many people of my generation all grew up with that shock theater package on television of 'Frankenstein,' 'Wolfman,' 'Dracula,' 'Mummy,' all the Universal stuff.