You don't want to line up on the blocks and know you have not done everything you possibly can.

Swimming is one of the hardest sports.

Whenever you get a sharp pain, you need to back it off.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean, it's such a solo endeavour.

I think there is more pressure at trials when you are trying to make the team and you have to come first or second, and you have to go under qualifying time.

I want to glide in a world of beauty, ’ I said. ‘To be carried away into a world of luxurious things.

The human race may be divided into people who love cats and people who hate them; the neutrals being few in numbers, and, for intellectual and moral reasons, not worth considering.

I have been lucky enough to work with the world's best designers and top stylists - who have been my mentors.

The fact is that certain ideas exist almost everywhere and at all times and can even spontaneously create themselves quite independently of migration and tradition.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

Womanpower means the self determination of women, and that means all the baggage of paternalistic society will have to be thrown overboard.

Isolation is the indispensable component of human happiness.

If you want to live a happy life, don’t teach your wife how to drive a car or a motorcycle.

When someone says something dunderheaded to me about the material, it's usually a big neon sign revealing their own damage or ignorance, so my compassion kicks in.

Schoolteachers seemed determined to persuade me that 'classic' is a synonym for 'narcotic'.