I don’t know what’s gonna happen in 30 years, and that’s…awesome.

It's hard to escape when your hobby is your job.

Sexiness isn't being young, hot and wearing a bikini. It's being powerful and feeling like you belong in your skin and it feels good.

You don’t have to feel safe to feel unafraid.

Seems like the more you grow, the more time you spend alone, before you know it you end up perfectly on your own.

You have to be uncomfortable in order to be successful, in some ways. Because if you stay in your comfort zone, you would never do the things that you need to do.

Try your hand at everything. Figure out what your space in the world is and take it. Then you can let other people in who will celebrate that about you, not try to turn you into something else.

To err is human, to forgive is interplanetary.

You never should feel like you've grown up because then you've stopped learning and you've stopped getting the best things out of life.

No matter who you are, big or small, female or man, brave or not brave, you can still be empowered and feel strong.

It’s not about trying to change the world, it’s about trying to not be changed by it

Because the human experience involves loss, we need to feel it, express it, and then release it. Only then do we achieve healing.

Democracy is interactive... It's a constant job of information, education, explanation, listening, and interactive communication.

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

In their precise tracings-out and subtle causations, the strongest and fieriest emotions of life defy all analytical insight.

Our gratitude to the American people is immense and we should never be embarrassed to express it.

The way I talk is bizarre.

What if it's boring - or if it's not boring, it might be too revealing, or worse, it might be too revealing and still be boring.

Above all, innovation is not invention. It is a term of economics rather than of technology.

I don't ever expect to be permanently happy. I don't think that's part of the human condition.

The Latin American drug cartels have stretched their tentacles much deeper into our lives than most people believe. It's possible they are calling the shots at all levels of government.