There's a lot more pressure when you're a medal favorite. Now, nobody has any expectations for me. Nobody knows what I can do, so I'm riding with nothing to lose.

It's important to talk about it. You raise awareness. But you can also prevent it (child abuse) by not letting it be a secret.

It's easier to limit yourself, but if you do, you will never reach your true potential.

If you want it and you dream about it...there's nothing that's going to stop you.

It was something I really wanted to do. I can't imagine what it will be like to carry the flag and walk through the doors of the stadium. I'm thrilled to lead the team.

What a great opportunity to come to my fifth Olympics, be flag bearer and also be a returning medalist so I have a platform to talk about something and hopefully do some good in this world.

The naysayer has a place in your life, but if that is someone that you are considering to be your friend, do they truly add value in your life?

The way a culture treats women in birth is a good indicator of how well women and their contributions to society are valued and honored.

She’d been caught up in that image, that flash, man’s nuclear stamp, and had not really understood what happened after.

Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for any one the things you would not desire for yourself.

From my point of view, photography never got any better than it was in 1840.

Rain is a blessing when it falls gently on parched fields, turning the earth green, causing the birds to sing.

Life ain't all beer and skittles, and more's the pity; but what's the odds, so long as you're happy?

The Labour Party is the sister Party for the Democrats and their progressive views are the ones that we are most aligned with.

"Snapped" happened maybe like two months after I released the mixtape. I just like took a break from recording and that was the first song I wrote and recorded after the mixtape.

The whole play of existence is so beautiful that laughter can be the only response to it. Only laughter can be the real prayer, gratitude.