Things can change in the blink of an eye!

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.

She looked utterly betrayed, as betrayed as the most betrayed person in Shakespeare.

If a mark of affection can sometimes be taken for an insult, perhaps the gesture of love is not universal: it too must be translated from one language to another, must be learned.

Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.

If I can convince others that there is a God and that they need to know Him, then I have done my job.

The organization will always mirror the behavior, habits, attitude, mindset and pace of the leader.

President Obama has lowered taxes more than he has raised them, and they are today lower than they were in President Reagan's time. But you don't hear conservatives crowing about that.

Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always right, and the errors are always those of man.

Wait for a miracle and it will never come. Take responsibility and you'll invite a miracle.

I don't get recognized all the time, but it tends to happen more in America, and people are so lovely when they do.

A boy is the only known substance from which a man can be made.