Human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.

I'm not going to swim for anybody else. I'm swimming for me.

Every performance is a new challenge, and I love this feeling of uncertainty.

The strength and power of despotism consists wholly in the fear of resistance.

我喜欢竞争。这就是我的工作。