I have the opportunity to be part of swimming history. To take the sport to a new level would be an honor for me. There's no better time to try this than now.

Our history is not our destiny.

From tea parties to the election in Massachusetts we are witnessing the single greatest political pushback in American history.

I am privileged to be a citizen of the single greatest society in all of human history.

I don't have incredible knowledge about films or of filmmaking history I'm not that kind of person.

I am totally fascinated by people and our history as I understand and continue to explore it. People have so much to give and so far to go and yet we have given and gone a great distance. It's really just interesting to ask: why not? And see where that takes me.

The whole history of pop music had rested on the first person singular with occasional intrusions of the second person singular.

All in all for someone who was immersed in fascinated by and dedicated to flight I was disappointed by the wrinkle in history that had brought me along one generation late. I had missed all the great times and adventures in flight.

Religion has caused more misery to all of mankind in every stage of human history than any other single idea.

Music can be healing and with my history and my knowledge of both sides of what looks like a gigantic divide in the world I feel I can point a way forward to our common humanity again.