When you achieve your Dreams It's not so much what you get, It's who you become.

The integrity and self-esteem gained from winning the battle against extremity are the richest treasures in my life

But for each of us, isn't life about determining your own finish line?

I wanted to teach myself some life lessons at the age of 60 and one of them was that you don't give up.

If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it.

"I have three messages," said the breathless Nyad."One is we should never ever give up. Two is you are never too old to chase your dreams. And three is it looks like a solitary sport but it takes a team."

When I walk up on that shore in Florida, I want millions of those AARP sisters and brothers to look at me and say, 'I'm going to go write that novel I thought it was too late to do. I'm going to go work in Africa on that farm that those people need help at. I'm going to adopt a child. It's not too late, I can still live my dreams.'