When you use your imagination anything can happen.

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.

Do not waste your life away by wishing for days you may not even get to see.

I'm fascinated how often and with what whole-heartedness people will risk their lives to perform acts of courage, sacrifice, and compassion for total strangers.

I’ll work my way from irony to sincerity in the sinking city, a would-be Whitman of the vulnerable grid.

The only place where I felt at home, on familiar ground, was the Jewish cemetery. And yet I had never set foot in it before. Children had been forbidden to enter.

They who load us with insults and ignominies give us the means of acquiring treasures more precious than any that man can gain in this life.

I was never a 'sit down with a notepad and write lyrics' kind of person.

My advice to you is to start drinking heavily.

Imagine you were now dead, or had not lived before his moment. Now view the rest of your life as a bonus.

I didn't know that being in a relationship meant you had to be nice. I thought it meant you had to hack away at the other person until they were beaten down and then were too afraid to leave.

The only way anyone knows which girl I'm with is if a one-night stand goes on 'Howard Stern.'