I just knew if it could be done, it had to be done, and I did it

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

When somebody tells me I cannot do something, that's when I do it.

People said women couldn't swim the Channel, but I proved they could.

I have no complaints. I am comfortable and satisfied. I am not the kind of person who reaches for the moon as long as I have the stars.

When we're in the water, we're not in this world.

Slowly I came to know that the depth of our heartbreaks determines the depth of our faith. God gives us everything to conquer the big and the little hurts of life.

To me, the sea is like a person - like a child that I've known a long time. It sounds crazy, I know, but when I swim in the sea, I talk to it. I never feel alone when I'm out there.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

It is amazing to see all that is going on around us and it is people of action who make it all happen.

The one whose concern is with thatwhich enters the belly will discover that his value is found in thatwhich goes out of it.

I take very few people seriously, and I'm not one of them.

A little bit of this, a little bit of that. I never had any specific style.

The Byrds flew off the fallout shelter, eight miles high and falling fast.

Man is an animal that cooks his victuals.

Our leaders are acting like lemmings.

Prayer causes things to happen that wouldn't happen if you didn't pray.

Crowns have their compass-length of days their date- Triumphs their tomb-felicity, her fate- Of nought but earth can earth make us partaker, But knowledge makes a king most like his Maker.