Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

You can’t make a high jump without high spirits!

Just so you know a weapon, a body armour can never be a fashion accessory.

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere wholeheartedly one-directionally without regret or reservation.

Violence begets violence by whomever used. War is a dirty business and entails the use of degrading means, whoever wages it.

The boldness of asking deep questions may require unforeseen flexibility if we are to accept the answers.

There was a time in America not long ago when rock 'n' roll was called race music, and white kids who wanted to go see Chuck Berry were completely forbidden.

I always wanted to play Joan of Arc. I've always wanted to do that. Now I'm thinking, 'Maybe there's a story in Joan of Arc's mother!' If I don't hurry up, her grandmother!

The mind will not believe in death, perhaps because, as far as the mind is concerned, death never happens.

Failure may be cruel, but success is crueller still. The gods are usurers, you know; they lend to mortals, but they exact a desperate interest.

They that pray in the family do well; they that pray and read the Scriptures do better; but they that pray, and read, and sing do best of all.