I will stay with it and endure through suffering hardship and once the heaving sea has shaken my raft to pieces, then I will swim.

One has to know how to swim just well enough to avoid having to save anyone else.

The road to success is not easy or else everyone would be the greatest at what they do — we need to be psychologically prepared to face the unavoidable challenges along our way, and when it comes down to it, the only way to learn how to swim is by getting in the water.

I read the way a person might swim, to save his or her life. I wrote that way too.

I know the joy of fishes
In the river
Through my own joy, as I go walking
Along the same river.

He tried to drown his troubles but they knew how to swim.

As a pioneer swimmer, you've got to be willing to fail and try again. The point isn’t to learn to fail, the point is to learn to bounce back.

I thought I might die. But then I thought, 'Other people have made it through these things before'. I kept my eyes on the lights on shore and kept swimming.

If you know someone who tries to drown their sorrows, you might tell them sorrows know how to swim.

I’ve swum through some very cold and rough seas. I think that’s made me more determined than the average person.

Everyone has his own reality in which, if one is not too cautious, timid or frightened, one swims. This is the only reality there is.

I'll riverdance while that's happening, 'cause it seems to be what I naturally do anyway.

In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows
But my sorrows they learned to swim

I swim back to the shores of privilege out of the sea of the dispossessed.