So what if I never win my fifth gold medal; It's only one end of the string. It's competing that matters. It's proving that there is a place for guys like me in sports. It's a persona challenge to extend myself.
Where children are, there is the golden age.
To romanticize the world is to make us aware of the magic, mystery and wonder of the world; it is to educate the senses to see the ordinary as extraordinary, the familiar as strange, the mundane as sacred, the finite as infinite.
Where are we really going? Always home.
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
I do not have much patience with a thing of beauty that must be explained to be understood.
A book is the only real escape from this fallen world. Aside from death.
I always had good friends, but I did not feel like a cool girl, ever.
I just love creating an environment where people can open up and say what's on their mind and in their heart.