My philosophy is that I'm an artist. I perform an art not with a paint brush or a camera. I perform with bodily movement. Instead of exhibiting my art in a museum or a book or on canvas, I exhibit my art in front of the multitudes.

A race is a work of art that people can look at and be affected in as many ways they're capable of understanding.

I've been in international competition, and now I know what the big boys can do. You don't go out and just run. There's an offense and a defense.

If I lose forcing the pace all the way, well, at least I can live with myself. But if it's a slow pace, and I get beaten by a kicker who leaches off the front, then I'll always wonder, 'What if...?'

Economic development and poverty alleviation are so complicated that I don't think there's a single background or a single discipline that is sufficient to tackle these great human problems.

All I'm doing is I'm filling out my tax returns - or my accountants are, and I'm paying whatever I'm supposed to pay, though I'm giving away a large amount of the money and that probably lowers my tax rate because I'm giving away so much money. But change the law, but don't blame me for the law. I'm not writing the law. I didn't write the law.

By a considerable margin, my family's largest-ever financial expenditure was the adoption of our two sons.

The very beginning of European aesthetics started from Florence. Everything here was beauty, money, and creativity, the power of the good money.