I don't lift weights. I do fitness exercises to stay strong.

I just felt like I can try to do something special.

The reason swimming is one of the hardest sports is because you have to be in the pool by yourself every day, making that sacrifice. There's no time to do anything else.

Nothing complements a fast mind better than a slow tongue. And nothing aggravates a slow mind better than a fast tongue.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is Reggie Jackson, I really mean that.

If those who owe us nothing gave us nothing, how poor we would be.

Talk often, but never long: in that case, if you do not please, at least you are sure not to tire your hearers.

But to me, the most important page in my daughter's book is the last one - because it's blank. It says, "Your Hero's Photo Here," and, "Your Hero's Story Here."

Remember that all worlds draw to an end and that noble death is a treasure which no one is too poor to buy.

I enjoy thinking myself into other times and places. I don't like some of the conventions of the 'historical novel', but I think there's a way of doing it that has a lot of merit.

They aren't the brightest crayons in the box -Max(saving the world and other extreme sports)

I awoke, only to see that the rest of the world is still asleep.

The disaster... is what escapes the very possibility of experience—it is the limit of writing. This must be repeated: the disaster de-scribes.