I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.

While we are here we should set goals and achieve them, make the best of things, make others feel good about themselves, and be happy with what we are and what we are doing.

It's kind of dangerous to cut in the camera, but that's the only way I know how to direct.

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

Smart data structures and dumb code works a lot better than the other way around.

People see him as a hero. Not just in Zimbabwe or here in Zambia but across the whole of southern Africa. It's no good demonising Robert Mugabe.

When Mother Teresa received the Nobel Prize, she was asked, "What can we do to promote world peace?" She answered "Go home and love your family.

Even a good politician, someone who is very ambitious, chooses not to see trouble.

You're either in love with what you do, or you're not in love.

There may be some difficulties during a period of adjustment. Specifically, picking up their life again and making their own truly independent decisions.

Too many people had spent too long demonizing or totemizing me to listen seriously to what I had to say.

Poison Pill is a great reading. The novel ranges from Russian oligarchs to the American worlds of drug research and the equity markets, all of it in a mode of high suspense.