You can tell a great athlete by, like, not how many times he wins, unlike when he loses. Because that's what is gonna make a swimmer.

Have fun, because that's what life is all about.

If you’re a man at night, you’ve got to be a man in the morning.

Always reach for the moon cuz if u slip up u will still be a star!! #Jeah

Pain, tolerance, endurance-when it comes down to that point, there's always something left. You just have to find it.

Something will pop up in my head. It could be like the weirdest thing. Like all'a sudden like I have like a jumping banana in my head.

I love swimming because racing.

Abe Lincoln is my favorite president of all time - and he pulls off that top hat pretty well.

It's not like I'm looking for a blonde or a brunette, light-skinned or dark-skinned. I feel like I give any girl a fighting chance.

These are my shoes that I designed from top to the very sole to the very top to the bottom. Laces.

I was a little troublemaker. Always trying to get in trouble, always mischief, like throwing rocks at cars when I was younger, all that kind of stuff.

You can be an expert any field of study with consistent effort and consistent learning.

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

In terms of my marriage, you know, falling in love with my husband was by far the best thing that's ever happened to me.

Poetry is a necessity of life.

Writers are used to being re-created, and need it.

You don't have to protect these people, Cassel." I am these people.

I can cry myself to sleep because I'm not as great as Leonard Cohen, but who cares? Maybe you can't be as great as some people, but it's a tragedy when you don't follow your dreams.

Anytime you try to be a loving person, you're doing your part to save the world.

The song "Sing for the Submarine" presents my dream world, which is way different from my waking world. It's set in the future and it's post-apocalyptic.

I had this stereotypical view that black people apart from me probably threw stones and lived in huts.