P.E. was my life in school. Without it, I wouldn't be standing here. It gave me confidence when I was an overweight kid with a speech impediment.

Coming from a small town it was tough to dream big. When I grew up in a small town in Georgia, my biggest dream was one day to be able to go to Atlanta.

I never get tired of running. The ball ain't that heavy.

If you train hard, you'll not only be hard, you'll be hard to beat.

If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It's simple, but it's true, and your age is just an excuse.

When I feel good about myself, things start happening for myself. When you look up, you go up.

Success is just being happy. And I try so many different things. I do a lot of different things. Because I think God has helped me to love myself. I know who God is, and I love God.

As a born-again Christian, I believe God actively and directly influences me to action.

SUCCESS is being able to come home, lay your head on the pillow and SLEEP in PEACE.

I was a fat little kid with a speech impediment. I used to get beat up, not just picked on.

I do this 'Walker shake.' You got to get knocked down many times, shake it off. Life is about ups and downs, and you got to keep standing up.

Unfounded gossip can turn into sanctioned history if falls into the hands of the right storyteller.

People's minds are overloaded with information.

When we look at chimpanzees . . . we get this extremely fine-grained view of evolution, and as a result we understand a lot more about the processes that are changing our own genome over time.

Do you know how it is when one wakes at night suddenly and asks, listening to the pounding heart: what more do you want, insatiable?

The Statue of Liberty's gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars.

When you admonish a wrongdoer, do so gently, that it may not lead to hostility.

A #GIRLBOSS is in charge of her own life. She gets what she wants because she works for it.

As with Three Mile Island, the hysteria of the media and the political class over the Deepwater spill is likely to lead to increased risk and adverse environmental tradeoffs.

Never think there is anything impossible for the soul. It is the greatest heresy to think so. If there is sin, this is the only sin; to say that you are weak, or others are weak.

The single most important impediment to global institutions is the concept of "my country, right or wrong".