On learning to swim: I'm too big to have some woman hold my stomach and say 'Now kick your feet.'

I know how to learn anything I want to learn. I absolutely know that I could learn how to fly the space shuttle because someone else knows how to fly it, and they put it in a book. Give me the book, and I do not need somebody to stand up in front of the class.

I try to connect to human emotion. I'm always looking for something primal, something really base that is beyond language, that people understand beyond language.

We spend money that we do not have, on things we do not need, to impress people who do not care.

When I say I am going to run three miles, I run five. With that mentality, it is actually difficult to lose.

I want to represent the idea that you really can make what you want I believe I can create whatever I want to create.

When you're running and you are there, there's a little person that talks to you and that little person says “Oh, I'm tired”, “My lounge's about to pop”, “I'm so hurt”, “I'm so tired”, “There's no way I can possibly continue”. And you wanna quit. Right? That person, if you learn how to defeat that person when you're running you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life.