Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

I am overwhelmed by the strength of my body and the power of my mind. For one moment, just one second, I feel immortal.

This journey has always been about reaching your own other shore no matter what it is, and that dream continues.

You're never too old to chase your dream.

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

A lot of athletes have this sort of invincibility: [The jellyfish] should worry about me. I don't worry about them. I'll just swim right through them.

I am willing to put myself through anything; temporary pain or discomfort means nothing to me as long as I can see that the experience will take me to a new level.

The spirit is larger than the body. The body is pathetic compared to what we have inside us

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

My mom just died. We blink and another decade passes. I don't want to reach the end of my life and regret not having given my days everything in me to make them worthwhile.

The true life is not reducible to words spoken or written, not by anyone, ever.

How long have you been standing there?""Just long enough to see you give Daemon the middle finger.""He deserved it.

Popular feeling is very often sentimental, muddle-headed, and eminently unsound, but it cannot be disregarded for all that.

Surely being a Professional Beauty - let alone an ageing one - is one of the most insecure and doomed careers imaginable.

I had to be honest with myself and that I felt hatred then, but as children say "I hate you", it's not really hate, you know, it's anger.

I'm a Method actor. I spent years training for the drinking and carousing I had to do in this film.

My hypothesis is that conservative Republicans have very clear values, and when you have that, you're simply more relaxed.

To my wife 'I told you I was sick'.

The very existence of the bicycle is an offense to reason and wisdom.

How delightful it is to see a friend after a length of absence! How delightful to chide him for that length of absence to which we owe such delight.