Ordinary won't change the world.

Sometimes we set boundaries for ourselves in life, or even worse, we allow others to do so. In many cases, these boundaries are just in our mind and need to be pushed away.

We have to appreciate that we are part of nature, we must work with nature; the environment is our lifeline.

Very few things which are really worth achieving come easily. Sometimes they do, but most of the time you really have to work hard and cleverly.

I think every child in every country, not just South Africa, every year should go to a national park, and it should be part of their basic curriculum.

I love swimming, swimming's my passion and I hope I swim until the last day of my life, so I really, really do enjoy swimming, but swimming for me is simply a way of carrying a message.

Britain has bred many great explorers, but they seem to get so little coverage compared to soccer and rugby players.

You shouldn't be able to do a swim at the North Pole, it should be frozen over.

If you've got a problem and you multiply it by 50-million people, it becomes unsolvable, but if you've got a problem and you divide it by 50-million people, it becomes solvable.

I was very, very lucky because I started swimming when most of the landmarks in the world had not been swum.

Mount Everest is a very spiritual place, it's a beautiful mountain.

Flow wherever you go. You can’t be limited. Dare to rise above all limitations and become better than you were. Strive to arrive at the top.

It takes love to hold on when you want to let go. It takes love to let go when you want to hold on.

Know all the paths, but walk on your path! Be original!

The dullest Olympic sport is curling, whatever 'curling' means.

I decline Christianity because it is Jewish, because it is international, and because, in cowardly fashion, it preaches Peace on Earth.

I'm a civil rights attorney. I'm a victim rights attorney.

My dad gave me my first bike at 16. I soon fell off and was in a wheelchair for weeks. I haven't fallen since.

I'm literally open to any medium that will have me.

All cultural imitation, opposed as it is to creativeness, is bound to make a people small.

O, full of scorpions is my mind!