It's always too early to quit.
Be gentle to all and stern with yourself.
Expect problems and eat them for breakfast.
Leap, and the net will appear.
Only the educated are free.
What you do today can improve all your tomorrows.
If you've got a talent, protect it.
Be thine own palace, or the world's thy jail.
To know oneself, one should assert oneself.
Wherever you are - be all there.
Obviously, losing a parent is very difficult. I miss my dad every day, but I know he would be proud to see me continuing to swim and going for another shot at the Olympics.