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.

Things won’t go perfect. It’s all about how you adapt from those things and learn from mistakes.

Determination goes a long way when pursuing dreams.

And grief, no matter how you try to cater to its wail, has a way of fading away, and the person so real, so beloved, becomes a dim, slightly out-of-focus shadow.

But women- this I will never understand- they are touched by the oddest things

It is sad to grow old but nice to ripen.

Every place is the center of the world.

Like the East Side tenement, our house was seldom without the sound of music or laughter or questions being asked or stories being told.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

I think change is always a good thing. Change keeps things moving.

My world on the road always ends up feeling really small which is ironic because that's when I'm seeing the most places and meeting the most people!

Only two countries in this hemisphere are not democratic, but many countries in both Central and South America, and in the Caribbean, are really fragile democracies.