I believe that my connection, to my higher power, is separate from everybody’s. I don’t believe that the Muslims have all the answers. I don’t believe the Christians have all the answer, or the Jews have all the answers...

The greatest dreams are always unrealistic.

On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

When you look around at the six people that you spend the most time with, that's who you are. I think that in making those decisions in who you are going to be married to, who your friends are going to be, those are really huge, critical, life decisions. Who gets to talk to you everyday, is almost like the food that you eat. It is a very huge critical situation to choose who the people are that you are spending your life with, spending your time with and who you are choosing to give your love and everything to.

I love living. I think that's infectious, it's something you can't fake.

If you learn how to defeat that person when you're running. You will know how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

Because I know that hope and fear are connected, I put my mask of hope on.