I have to change a lot of things before I become a good marathon runner.

I think happiness comes from self-acceptance. We all try different things and we find some comfortable sense of who we are. We look at our parents and learn and grow and move on. We change.

People lose people we lose things in our life as we're constantly growing and changing. That's what life is is change and a lot of that is loss. It's what you gain from that loss that makes life.

When you go off in the world and make your life and you come back to your home town and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles doing the same things that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

Kids are a huge sacrifice they change everything - but I'm ready to work for things of greater importance than going out to meet someone for dinner at 10 o'clock at night.

I want to be able to look back and say 'I've done everything I can and I was successful.' I don't want to look back and say I should have done this or that. I'd like to change things for the younger generation of swimmers coming along.

I have to say you know I've seen so many people go through the cycle and become famous and not famous anymore and you know want - have their priorities change and want different things.

Sometimes you could be in an unhappy relationship you are very much in love with someone but it's making you unhappy and you think things can change and you can work it out.

Fame changes a lot of things but it can't change a lightbulb.

I have a resistance to change in things that I feel comfortable with and that I'm used to.