My faith has always been important to me. It defines who I am.

You are always racing against the other swimmers, but I always try to just focus on what I'm doing and how I want to swim my races.

I try to make the good days great and take something positive from the days I'm not feeling good - work on technique or something like that.

Wipe those tears, as they have cleansed your soul.

A memory is lodged in the mind but a feeling inhabits the whole body

God desires that man should be. God does not wish to be alone. The meaning of existence is the conquest of loneliness, the acquisition of kinship and nearness.

I curled closer to May, comforted by her warmth.

When rock came along the lyrics and melodies became less important and it bothered me to think that perhaps they might not regain the value they have to music - they are music.

You make some big grandoise decision about what you need to do, or who you need to be, and then circumstances arise that immediately reveal to you how little you understood about yourself.

My films can be considered political action against the tyranny of good taste.

...where legitimate opportunities are closed, illegitimate opportunities are seized. Whatever opens opportunity and hope will help to prevent crime and foster responsibility.

Never let the church become a place where it's just a Las Vegas display place for you to show off.

It is easy for us to tarnish God's character because He never argues back; He never tries to defend or vindicate himself.