I'm really quite exhausted at the moment, but you never know, you are always surprised at what you can find sometimes, and maybe I will find something deep within to find the desire to swim fast

It's easy to forget when you're an elite athlete that everyone else gets nervous as well. Even the best people in the world, at whatever they do, they're still nervous

I don't think I'm unbeatable, nobody is

I used to beat myself up everyday if I did not win an event. I am quite open about those things now and that has been a big change.

I can't control what everyone else swims but if all goes well I know there are no limits.

Solitude time is a period when you actually turn your time into some treasure.

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

We seek love in relationships, peace in security, and joy in material things...but these feelings are divine and not dependent on any outer circumstances.

Privacy is a function of liberty.

Truth is tarter than taradiddles; and nothing is tarter, terser, than truth on the track of tired trash in a trance.

Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.

An expert is an ordinary fellow from another town.

I have to say, creating memories is so important to me that I did a book about creating memories for your family.

As actors, we're always asked to portray and react to these extreme circumstances, otherwise it's not interesting. They are agonizing things to think about.

At the bottom there is no perfect history; there is none such conceivable. All past centuries have rotted down, and gone confusedly dumb and quiet.