It's definitely an honour to represent my home country once again in the Commonwealth Games. It is going to be a magical experience and to be considered as a role model is a reward in itself.

You have to have other things in your life apart from swimming to focus on. It's not going to be just swimming in my life.

I definitely think education is important and both education and sport link really well together. I like to give education and sport the best that I can to see if I can succeed in both.

You can’t control other people’s actions, but you can control who “thinks” they have control over you.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

Every step in the progress of missions is directly traceable to prayer.

You do not defend a world that is already lost.

it is better to be happy alone than to be miserable with someone else

If Hillary Clinton had won the White House, I believe that given what Comey did to her, and what he tried to do, she should have fired him.

We came by night to the Fortunate Isles, And lay like fish Under the net of our kisses.

I've always known who I am. I might not work perfectly, or be like them, but that's okay. I know I work in my own way.

The blank space can be humbling. But I've faced it my whole professional life. It's my job. It's also my calling. Bottom line: Filling this empty space constitutes my identity.

When we know something and rest in that knowing we limit our vision. We will only see what our knowing will allow us to see. In this way experience can be our enemy.