This is a lifelong dream of mine and I'm very very glad to be with you.

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.

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?

Expect more get less and feel sadness Or expect less get more and feel happiness

People long to go backward in their imagination as well as forward. We don't wish simply to exist forever in some future

Sites need to be able to interact in one single, universal space.

There's something about the ukulele that just makes you smile. It makes you let your guard down. It brings out the child in all of us.

For children, play is exceedingly seriously & important

I am hoping that the scientists and politicians who have been blindly demonizing carbon dioxide for 37 years will one day open their eyes and look at the evidence.

When Lonnie Mack came out with the guitar instrumental "Memphis" I thought, Oh God, finally somebody we guitar players can relate to !

The eyes of a woman who never cried can not be beautiful.

We all get paid very, very well, and we have responsibilities.

Sit down to write what you have thought, and not to think what you shall write.