“That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.”

“I always tell young swimmers: 'Practice things until you can't get them wrong. Not until you get them right.”

“There is nothing wrong with crying. Your feelings tell you who are. They tell what is important. Don't ever be ashamed of them.”

“If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I'll tell you what you are.”

“Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.”

“Never be ashamed of how you feel. If you feel shame because of how you feel, it means you have been judged by others and told that your feelings were wrong or bad. But the reality is you wouldn't be feeling them if there wasn't a very valid reason to be feeling them. Your feelings are valid. If you feel an emotion, there is a good reason that you are feeling that emotion. Don't let anyone tell you how you should or shouldn't feel.”

“If you don't get what you want, you suffer; if you get what you don't want, you suffer; even when you get exactly what you want, you still suffer because you can't hold on to it forever.”

“I've wanted to go out with you from the first moment I saw you. I just had to wait until you were ready.”

“Now I know that if you wait until you think you are ready, you'll wait your whole life”

“You wake me up early in the morning to tell me that I'm right? Please wait until I'm wrong.”