The trials on the road to world harmony are no greater than the courage of those who accept the challenge.

If you don't have confidence, you'll always find a way not to win.

Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

My best year of track competition was the first year I ate a vegan diet.

I want to be remembered as a person who felt there was no limitation to what the human body and mind can do and be the inspiration to lead people to do things they never hoped to do.

Channel your energy. Focus.

It's all about the journey, not the outcome.

Life is about timing and overcoming difficult things.

My thoughts before a big race are usually pretty simple. I tell myself: Get out of the blocks, run your race, stay relaxed. If you run your race, you'll win... channel your energy. Focus.

Join me in the final race to smash poverty and achieve the UN Millennium Development Goals

I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.

It was pleasant to think that men still sang, even in the midst of butchery and famine.

Forever is a measure of time used by people who share an ordinary love. Our extraordinary love is immeasurable...for us, forever just won’t do.

A poet is a nightingale, who sits in darkness and sings to cheer its own solitude with sweet sounds.

Tell me what you think and then tell me what the really smart person in the room who disagrees with you thinks.

Ambition is a drug that makes its addicts potential madmen.

Sometimes the problem outshines the pain.

I think he [Vaclav Havel] felt that he could speak more truth, in a way, through writing plays.

Steve Jobs was a digital pioneer, but when he went home, he listened to vinyl.

My observation of Christendom is that most of us tend to base our relationship with God on our performance instead of on His grace.

We abide in God insofar as we do not sin.