When I'm running fast, I don't feel anything, it's effortless, it's like my feet don't even touch the ground, it's like I'm flying.

Whatever muscles I have are the product of my own hard work and nothing else.

I can feel the wind go by when I run. It feels good. It feels fast.

I take pride in everything I do. I don't want to be handed anything. I want to earn it.

I am thrilled to be 31, still running and having my daughter watch me even if it is on TV.

I believe in women. I believe in myself. I believe in my body.

Before me, sprinters retired at 23 or 24. I run because I still like it, I can make a living, and I feel I was born to do it. And because people tell me I can't do it.

I always want to be the best and if I can't, I don't want to run.

I want to combine a business major with studies in clothing and textiles.

I want it all. Fame, fortune and all the commercials there are to do.

I've noticed that since I've been pregnant I see babies everywhere. I love talking to them. I never used to really like kids that much. I guess it comes out of you naturally.

A man who preserves his integrity no real, long-lasting harm can ever come.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?

Often it isn't the mountains ahead that wear you out, it's the little pebble in your shoe.

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

Bunglers and pedants judge art according to genre; they approve of this and dismiss that genre, but instead of genres, the open-minded connoisseur appreciates only individual works.

You can enjoy the ideas of salvation, as long as you realize that there's no one to be saved.

Breakups hurt like a motherf*#ker, but they are not the end of the world. The pain is temporary, and if handled properly, they can even be life-changing.

No poem should be an urn to contain a meaning, but a net to catch what meanings float through the day.

As the number of studies increased, it became clear that writing was a far more powerful tool for healing than anyone had ever imagined.

A good man would prefer to be defeated than to defeat injustice by evil means.