Records are made to be broken.

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.

We take the names of madmen, because madness is our fate. Terribly melodramatic, that.

My voice falls into Southern drawl when I am tired, drunk, or in trouble. Too often, my accent is attacked by all three of these realities.

A career in journalism suddenly lost its appeal.

. . . the weal of the race, and the cause of humanity, here and now, are enough To give life meaning and death as well.

The two great cultural and political currents of Italy have always only been concerned with the masses.

What worries me is that we are increasingly enmeshed in incompetent systems, that is, systems that exhibit pathological behaviour but cant fix themselves.

As a technologist, I'm obsessed with searching for the next killer app.

Abstinence is the surety of temperance.

People are not killed by earthquakes alone, but by collapsed buildings.

Hands that the rod of empire might have sway'd, Or waked to ecstasy the living lyre.