I was blessed with certain gifts and talents and God gave them to me to be the best person I can be and to have a positive impact on other people.

Our house was always full of grandparents and aunts and uncles and cousins.

You don't have to sacrifice who you are to follow your beliefs.

I like golf, hiking, camping, boating and fishing.

For so long I wanted to win the gold medal.Then I won. I had to figure out what was the new motivation to take myself to that place again.

I don't think anyone chooses the decathlon as much as it chooses you.

It's not necessarily size that matters, it's how fast you move that implement.

If I look what sport has done in my life, I don't think there's any doubt that sport can change lives.

My life was very Japanese.

I love Broadway. And, I listen to country music, which I think a lot of people find surprising.

I do catch myself driving around singing tunes, but I don't know if it's necessarily show tunes.

Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.

Every creative force has an equal power to destroy.

The truth is revealed to those who desire to know, but also to those who will take the time to take action to counter or further the truths they have come to know..

He that always gives way to others will end in having no principles of his own.

Use your time to bathe yourself in the gift. Move your hand across the canvas. Go to museums. Make this into an obsession.

If there is one door in the castle you have been told not to go through, you must. Otherwise, you'll just be rearranging furniture in rooms you've already been in.

I'm not going to join any party. If I do vote again, and if I do become, you know, politically active, it will be independent.

The first thing to remember: There's no substitute for cold steel. They do not like it up 'em, they DON'T LIKE IT UP 'EM

I'm cautious about the currency situation, oil pricing and the economies of some countries not performing as we are expecting.

In the modern languages there was not, six hundred years ago, a single volume which is now read. The library of our profound scholar must have consisted entirely of Latin books.