All training does is get us back what we lost when we stopped having to hunt down our food. Our bodies are built for it already.

Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.

The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.

Exercising underwater also creates tremendous benefits by challenging your body in ways you can't on dry land.

If you just get out of your own way... It is amazing what will come to you.

People always ask me when they see me working out, "What are you training for?" The answer is I'm training for life.

Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.

Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!

I don't want to not live because of my fear of what could happen.

I know that if I scare myself once a day, I'm a better person.

Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall

Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.

Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes.

I have found that a writer is formed not so much by their experiences but by the way in which they view and capture those experiences.

Filtering solar radiation with air pollution is a bad idea.

The sea was surging among the pilings like the blithe mindless forces of dissolution.

Death does not frighten me but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.

the voice of your eyes is deeper than all roses

Unhappy love freezes all our affections: our own souls grow inexplicable to us. More than we gained while we were happy we lose by the reverse.

Let's win the peace and democracy the good people of Iraq so richly deserve after decades of tyranny.

If there are two persons praying, there are three. If three meet to pray, there are four praying. There is always one more than you can see.