“I go into a meditative state but I don’t follow a path that people who meditate take, like sitting in a room and getting quiet. It is when I swim that I meditate.”

My parents put me in the water very early, and also had me skiing at a very early age. They put me on skis when I was one and a half.

The moments that you share with a person do not stop when that person is not in your life anymore.

One of the things that I learned is that you never truly know yourself until you challenge yourself.

After I finished the Atlantic swim I said “never again,” but it didn’t take long for me to change my mind. I like to push my limits. I want to raise money for cancer research and to inspire others to follow their dreams.

It is when you are confronted with challenges that you see what you are really made of, what is important to you and what your true aspirations are…sometimes you think that you really know yourself, and then you find out that you really don’t.

We had a close connection in life, and I still carry that connection in following my dream. This is because of my parents, the closeness that we had and what we share together.

I was fortunate to have parents who understood the importance of exposing their kids to different sports, different cultures and different activities in order to discover what we liked and what we didn’t like. They didn’t push us, they just gave us many things to choose from.

The relationship that I had with my father did not stop when he passed away. An example is me doing the Pacific swim. If I didn’t have the father that I had I wouldn’t be doing this.

Simply put, you can read a story in a single sitting and hold it all in your mind. You can experience all of its rhythms, beginning to end, during that span. Consequently it has, I think, greater emotional power than a novel because of this real-time effect. Stories can stun you.

We waste a lot of our lives sometimes. There are people sitting across from us who would make the whole world better if we spent more time with them in it, but we can’t get across that gully.

You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .

I’d rather have ten years of superhypermost than live to be seventy sitting in some goddamn chair watching TV.

If you can get them once, man, get them standing up when they should be sitting down, sweaty when they should be decorous, smile when they should be applauding politely-

A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

Even if you’re a poet sitting in your room writing a poem, you’re still in the world

While shooting Ten I was sitting in the backseat, but I didn’t interfere. Sometimes, I was following in another car, so I was not even present on the “set”, because I thought they would work better in my absence.