I have an uncompromising relationship with my goals.

I am overwhelmed by the strength of my body and the power of my mind. For one moment, just one second, I feel immortal.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

You're never too old to chase your dream.

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

Everything- even me, and one day even Charlotte- must come to end.

It was different than all the rest because I say it was. I felt it was.

I think that any time of great pain is a time of transformation, a fertile time to plant new seeds.

What God originates, God orchestrates.

If I'm playing cards for pennies, I want to win.

Every woman, whoever she is, wherever she lives, should be able to give birth without the fear she's going to lose her baby or that her baby will lose her mother.

Free is not an alternative. My company did not turn a profit last year.

You should never listen to someone practice. That is their work and theirs alone.

There is no book so bad that it is not profitable in some part. -Nullus est liber tam malus ut non aliqua parte prosit

Macduff: What three things does drink especially provoke? Porter: Marry, sir, nose-painting, sleep, and urine.