Thinking about swimming isn't much like actually getting in the water. Actually getting in the water can take your breath away.

You can learn new things at any time in your life if you're willing to be a beginner. If you actually learn to like being a beginner, the whole world opens up to you.

Real obstacles don't take you in circles. They can be overcome. Invented ones are like a maze.

The amount of good luck coming your way depends on your willingness to act.

Happy people have two things in common. They know exactly what they want and they feel they're moving toward getting it.

Everyone has unique gifts and talents. What you love is what you're gifted at. To be completely happy, to live a completely fulfilled life, you have to do what you love.

Not fulfilling your dreams will be a loss to the world, because the world needs everyone's gift - yours and mine.

Doing your own thing is a generous act. Being gifted creates obligations, which means you owe the world your best effort at the work you love. You too are a natural resource.

You don't need endless time and perfect conditions. Do it now. Do it today. Do it for twenty minutes and watch your heart start beating.

The cure for sorrow is to learn something.

Isolation is a dream killer.

Jesus doesn't bring anything up from the wells of human nature--He brings them down from above.

I would rather my heart be without words than my words be without heart.

Don't give up the ship!

My father was a watchmaker and an inventor. I saw him working in the house every day. The work ethic, I got from him. He worked hard and he never complained about it.

One of our first customers asked me how big we want to be. I said I want to be really big. Later, it bothered me that I answered that way. Now I say I just want to be a great company.

When I was 3 years old, I thought I was very good at skiing.

One simple rule: no amnesty, no special pathway to citizenship.

In journalism, especially, we tend to deal with large, complex systems by finding especially interesting people and story lines to focus on.

Obviously, the best dressed awards is very relevant, I'm best dressed at all times.(smiles)

Is that really the issue [of bathrooms and gender] we want to be pushing leading up to a momentous election like this one? It's that shortsightedness that comes from identity politics.