“I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”

“My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.”

“Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.”

“Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.”

“In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.”

“I think women athletes who have been successful need to help other sports, those sports that are just emerging. That's what I've been thinking about and looking forward to.”

“I am neither male nor female, nor am I sexless. I am the Peaceful One, whose form is self-effulgent, powerful radiance.”

“You have peace," the old woman said, "when you make it with yourself.”

“Peace cannot be achieved through violence, it can only be attained through understanding.”

“The weight of the world is a trifle, if we all put our two fingers under it and try to lift together.”

“If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now.”

“I have probably purchased fifty 'hot tips' in my career, maybe even more. When I put them all together, I know I am a net loser.”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”