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

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.

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.

You are actually reproducing yourself when you invest your life.

You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your best in the opposite direction...

...our impulses are too strong for our judgement sometimes

If you're going through hell, keep going

Madam President, speaking here in Dublin Castle it is impossible to ignore the weight of history, as it was yesterday when you and I laid wreaths at the Garden of Remembrance.

Some of us will never ever find true love. Take, for instance me. And I'm pretty sure that guy right there. And that lady with the sideburns. And basically everybody at table nine.

Undervaluations caused by neglect or prejudice may persist for an inconveniently long time, and the same applies to inflated prices caused by over-enthusiasm or artificial stimulants.

Obama took a tour of the Great Wall of China and said, 'We need one of these things around the White House.'

The best part of being on the platform that we are is being able to influence and affect so many people.

I do believe that when dancing is right, the movement possesses a logic common to us all.