It's cool just because I've had this dream of changing the sport of swimming and it's finally happening.

There will be obstacles. There will be doubters. There will be mistakes. But with hard work... THERE ARE NO LIMITS.

The more you dream the more you achieve.

You can't put a limit on anything. The more you dream, the farther you get.

Swimming is more than a once-every-four-years sport. My goal is to bring attention to swimming - to give it some personality.

If you want to be the best you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

I like to get in my own world. When I'm getting ready for a meet, I always have headphones on, listening to rap music to get myself fired up

Perseverance, determination, commitment, and courage-those things are real. The desire for redemption drives you.

The one thing that's common to all successful people: They make a habit of doing things that unsuccessful people don't like to do.

I think goals should never be easy, they should force you to work, even if they are uncomfortable at the time.

Dream as big as you can dream, and anything is possible.

The commendable efforts of preachers to Europe is that people began to understand that wealth and success is not a matter of luck.

It doesn't matter if you please the whole world and don't please Jesus. But if you please Jesus, it doesn't matter whom you displease.

A member of Parliament to Disraeli: 'Sir, you will either die on the gallows or of some unspeakable disease.' That depends, Sir,' said Disraeli, 'whether I embrace your policies or your mistress.

Terrorists cannot threaten the survival of a great nation.

I'm a fast healer. I was on the air a week after I got shot.

Fighting is about knowledge, knowledge is a very important part of it.

And now the forces marshaled around the concept of the group have declared a war of extermination on that preciousness, the mind of man.

I think the role of artists in the past was very different. Artists had less responsibility in many ways.

He who owns a hundred sheep must fight with fifty wolves

Even when we speak of selflessness, the mind goes to "me." We think, "I'm selfless," but everything is selfless.