Want of principle is power. Truth and honesty set a limit to our efforts, which impudence and hypocrisy easily overleap.
Sometimes your disappointments make you a stronger person for the future.
I don't rank competitions - every single one is the Olympics to me.
I believe the reason for my early independence is sport, through which I learnt at an early stage to take care of myself and be disciplined.
Since I became a favorite in every race, it's just another burden that I have to bear.
The Olympics must be my curse or something.
People don't come to stadiums only to see results. They come to see a reaction, they want to see we are also human, that we can cry or laugh.
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
A nun, at best, is only half a woman, just as a priest is only half a man.
Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.
By means of Invocation, the being awakens, and awakening becomes fullness. By means of balancing, fullness becomes internal wholeness. By virtue of exteriorized attention, internal wholeness becomes Communion. By virtue of self-forgetfulness, Communion becomes Union.