This occasion is personally very meaningful and I hope to visit Korea again if I have the chance.

You got to try and reach for the stars or try and achieve the unreachable.

Between 1991 and 1997 I had really serious asthma.

Realise there is always somebody else in the World who's not coping as well as you are.

Disappointment and adversity can be catalysts for greatness. There's something particularly exciting about being the hunter, as opposed to the hunted. And that can make for powerful energy.

I like looking feminine and I enjoy being a role model. I enjoy being a woman. It all comes down to having the confidence to be who you are.

I am very determined and the sport is my passion. I believe I am born for running.

Peace, unity and harmony!

I think the greatest amount of pressure is the pressure I place on myself. So in a way I chose to be alone.

My story has resonated around the world. I am just Catherine, I just like to run. And I'll run with opportunities.

With Alexander's cancer, I was definitely brought to my knees for the first time because of the fear factor.

Playing to passion when you can will keep students motivated and working toward mastery.

Integrity is the essence of a beautiful, ethical life.

The web and its technologies are digital representations of everything we did before in a more private, bigger, faster and more empowering format than ever before.

Music inspires me and puts me in the right mood, but to actually listen to it when I write - I find it gets in the way.

The women one meets - what are they but books one has already read? You're a library of the unknown, the uncut. Upon my word I've a subscription.

It's never bad to be liked, and who doesn't feel good being liked, but that can't be your end game goal.

Because God's justice is inexorable, it is hard to obtain forgiveness for sins committed with complete deliberation.

It's not as if I'm trying to write crossword puzzles to which one might find an answer at the back of the book or anything like that.

But when Bumby nursed, his fist clutching the fabric of my robe, his eyes soft and bottomless and locked on mine, as if I were the very heart of his universe, I couldn't help but melt into him.

It's really fun to write cuss words. Just in general.