If you want to swim across the English Channel from England to France - you have to leave your doubt on the beach in England.

There is nothing more powerful than the made-up mind.

If we pass on an unsustainable environment to our children we have failed them.

We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world, but because our very survival depends upon it.

Climate change is the Everest of all problems, the thorniest challenge facing humankind.

Going against the tide has never been difficult for me. It wasn't even a conscious decision but the natural consequence of following my own instinct.

The right to have our environment protected for the benefit of present and future generations is our most important human right.

The importance of music extends well beyond its performance.

The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment. If you don't train properly, you'll die.

When I'm preparing for a swim, I imagine absolutely everything about it: the color of the water, how cold it is, the taste of salt in my mouth. I visualize each and every stroke.

The blues is also existential and offers a sense of mature reflection that enabled it to be the leitmotif of modern life.

Truth, like love and sleep, resents approaches that are too intense.

People think, 'She's a model. She must have such an attitude. She must be so stuck up.' But I'm normal. I cry. I'm not rich. I drive a 1987 Chevrolet Celebrity.

Truth is more deceptive than falsehood, for it is more frequently presented by those from whom we do not expect it, and so has against it a numerical presumption.

And capital punishment, however ineffective it may be and through whatever ignorance it may be resorted to, is a strictly defensive act, - at least in theory.

I am the luckiest filmmaker I know.

Recommending gastric bypass as a national solution for our diabetes epidemic is bad medicine and bad economics.

...evoking memories, particularly of days gone by.

I liked actions movies. Jean-Claude Van Damme was a major influence on me at that point in my life.

The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.

There can be no joy in living without joy in work.