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

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.

Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports.

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.

Love lights our darkness. It is forever tries.

The more you love, the more love you are given to love with.

The media's the most powerful entity on earth. They have the power to make the innocent guilty and to make the guilty innocent, and that's power. Because they control the minds of the masses.

Any terrorists that have come here and committee acts from 9/11 have come here in some form of a visa.

This was the consequence of seeing too much and understanding the horrible truth: No one is safe. The world is not manageable.

◦"At the deepest level of Being, you are one with all that is

Waterboarding ok if national security were at stake.

The characteristic of every neurosis is to represent itself as natural.

Oh, Fortuna, you capricious sprite!

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.