Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.

The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.

For all intents and purposes, I am a woman.

I'm saying goodbye to people's perception of me and who I am, I'm not saying goodbye to me, because this has always been me.

It hurts every day when you practice hard. Plus, when this decathlon is over, I got the rest of my life to recuperate. Who cares how bad it hurts?

When you accept yourself you are free from the need for others to accept you.

To be honest with you, being Bruce isn't easy.

It's not just about me. It's about all of us, accepting one another. We're all different... That's a good thing.

I firmly believe that deep in their soul everyone has a champion that can overcome obstacles and do great things.

I always felt that my greatest asset was not my physical ability, it was my mental ability.

You can produce as many products as you want in life if you just apply the principle of time conversion.

To each his own reality.

The answer to finding better work/life balance is to find the right blend between all our life activities—regardless of where and when they occur.

One had to be careful with elbows and boys

Perhaps no person can be a poet, or even enjoy poetry, without a certain unsoundness of mind.

All I know is there's thousands of people in the Academy and a lot of them, the majority of them, haven't won Oscars.A lot of people are crying, I guess.

I just always wonder if I'm too obsessive about subjects. I try to avoid that.

Basic philosophy, spirit and drive of an organization have far more to do with its relative achievements than do technological or economic resources, organizational structure, innovation and timing.

I will never stand again for the leadership of the Conservative Party.

I'll speak for the man, or against him, whichever will do him the most good.