In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency

I swam my brains out.

I'm trying to do the best I can. I'm not concerned with tomorrow, but with what goes on today.

Life is everchanging, if you cease to change, you cease to live.

If you're fail to prepare, you're prepared to fail.

We all love to win, but how many people love to train?

It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go

Swimming isn't everything - winning is.

If you are relaxing and subconsciously thinking about your coming race, you are going to perform at just about 100 percent efficiency.

If you want to be Mark Spitz then go for it. If you want to be Michael Phelps then you'll have to work for it. Nobody should wake up to a lower expectation of themselves.

And if you have high cholesterol, you would feel the same as if you had low cholesterol because there are no side effects, no symptoms of having high cholesterol.

What’s the point of something virtual if it doesn’t end up being real?

Wouldn't it help Americans more, in the long run, if we were forced to accept some responsibility for the environmental wreckage we prefer to assume is totally out of our control?

If on a friend’s bookshelf You cannot find Joyce or Sterne Cervantes, Rabelais, or Burton, You are in danger, face the fact, So kick him first or punch him hard And from him hide behind a curtain.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

Liberty begets license.

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

The still small voice within you must always be the final arbiter when there is a conflict of duty.

We love even when our love is not requited.

A mitzvah that costs money is worth more than one that costs nothing.

And nothing to look backward to with pride, and nothing to look forward to with hope.