My father wasn't really involved and my mom is the light in my life.

The ultimate would be to compete in a couple more Olympics, hopefully break some world records and wind up my sports career with a couple of years in the WNBA.

It's hard to have a bad hair day when you're famous.

Nobody has ever said anything about Marion Jones every using performance-enhancing drugs and they never will

I will continue to express the fact I am for a drug-free sport and always will be.

I am against performance-enhancing drugs. I have never taken them and I never will take them.

Greatness is defined by someone who is not simply awesome and wonderful in the sport they compete in but goes beyond that and is great in whatever they do off the track or off the court.

Get involved in everything you've ever dreamed of doing.

I train so hard to make sure failure doesn't happen. If I do everything I can, and run as fast as I possibly can and someone still beats me, I don't think of that as failure.

Love is not about two people doing things similar. It is about two people doing things differently to cover one another's flaws, and making it a perfect whole.

I've never worked a day in my life. Don't get me wrong. I work at track. If you love what you do, it's not work.

There are two MFA programs here at the University of Texas, and I read on the jury of both of them. And it's amazing to me how many really talented young writers seem to fear humor.

I find it easier to write in these little vignettes; if I try to get any more heavy, I find myself out of my league.

What kind of living will it be when you - Oh, God! Would you like to live with your soul in the grave?

My Irish mate told me, if you file down the edges of a 50 pence piece, you can use it as a 10p.

When Callas carried a grudge, she planted it, nursed it, fostered it, watered it and watched it grow to sequoia size.

The wise woman patterns her life on the theory and practice of modern banking. She never gives her love, but only lends it on the best security and at the highest rate of interest.

Whitehead reacted strongly against the idea of God as a cosmic tyrant, one who brings about everything.

The institutions under which we live, my countrymen, secure each person in the perfect enjoyment of all his rights.

What I try to do is the art of building, and the art of building is the art of construction; it is not only about forms and shapes and images.

If we become a people who are willing to give up our money and our freedom in exchange for rhetoric and promises, then nothing can save us.