If I had to choose a superhero to be, I would pick Superman. He's everything that I'm not.

I may not believe in long-drawn rituals but I believe in a supernatural force that gives me strength. This can take the form of my mum, my father, my husband or my failures.

Over the last three years, UCLA has helped me grow as an athlete, a scholar, and a member of the community. I have made some mistakes along the way; however, I am grateful that I made those mistakes backed by such a supportive and positive university so that I could learn from them and better myself.

The greatness of a man's power is the measure of his surrender.

That deed which in our guilt we today call weakness, will appear tomorrow as an essential link in the complete chain of Man.

God's own foolishness is stronger than men. Do we believe that?

We are all men, feeble, frail, and apt to faint.

God cannot use a man or woman greatly until he wounds them deeply.

Men may flee from the sunlight to dark and musty caves of the earth, but they cannot put out the sun. So men may in any dispensation despise the grace of God, but they cannot extinguish it.

Nothing save divine power is capable of doing so much for man as he can for himself.

Later on, there were some problems with our navy, so he made me the head of the navy - all things that I hardly knew anything about. I was basically an ignorant young man.

Do not mistake the rule of force for true power. Men are not shaped by force.