To be here, is a dream come true. A dream is something that you set for yourself, not what other people set for you. When I qualified in Seville I burst into tears. I couldn't believe that I was going to the Olympic Games.
The shadows: some hide, others reveal.
Everything that I bear within me bound, is to be found somewhere else free.
I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more.
More grievous than tears is the sight of them.
Human suffering, while it is asleep, is shapeless. If it is wakened it takes the form of the waker.
There are sufferings that have lost their memory and do not remember why they are suffering.
We have to change men's expectations, as they grow up, regarding their share of domestic work, of child care, but also of elder care, which is less pleasant and which men don't want to do.
All of us are embarrassed by some of what we are.
One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods. . .
There's always the possibility of a fiasco. But there's also the possibility of bliss.