In training everyone focuses on 90% physical and 10% mental, but in the races its 90% mental because there's very little that separates us physically at the elite level

There's a bit of kitten in all of us.

The world has a lot to offer. There’s a lot to explore. I like to take advantage of that.

For me, Arik Sharon - I remember his courage and inspiration. I want to remember him the way he really was, not as an aging 80-year-old man living in bed helpless and unconscious.

The Christian church is an encyclopedia of prehistoric cults.

China's influence is bound to rise.

Phones and soundtracks and Muzak and fountains replace genuine and unpredictable human contact with a seamless soundtrack from a bad movie and a cliche that makes us believe we must all be happy.

The beauty or ugliness of a character lay not only in its achievements, but in its aims and impulses; its true history lay, not among things done, but among things willed.

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

Glamour is something more than what you put on your body. It has to do with the way you carry yourself and the impact you have on others.

Without war there are no heroes. What harm would that be? Oh, Lavinia, what a woman's question that is.