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

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

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?

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.

I grabbed my purse, which was conveniently place by the front door. Gabriel was such a considerate abductor/host. He even left the front door unpadlocked.

Enlightenment, awakening or liberation can never be attained by seeking or desiring. It is realized only through experience.

So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

Our life seems cursed to be a wiggle merely, and a wandering without end.

When someone writes a really nasty piece about me. I think they're generally untrue because I think I'm a nice person.

If we continue as we have for the past 20 years in California, in the year 2020, everybody in the State will either be in prison or running one.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

Shame doesn't exist in the animal kingdom. It's a human conception.

It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth. It seems that the first victim of an Obama campaign is the truth.

Universal history, the history of what man has accomplished in this world, is at bottom the History of the Great Men who have worked here.