Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat today’s actions 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.

I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn't.

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.

Give to grow. Read to lead. Smile to celebrate.

You cannot always have happiness but you can always give happiness.

The first Latin music that blew my mind was bumba, which was a Puerto Rican beat.

I have always tried to work with first-time actors since my first movie. I always like to do movies with debutants.

A comedian's a comedian. They're a very kind of cynical bunch. I guess that's why I like them.

Every time I write something down I check it to see if it has that telltale glow, the glow that tells me there's something there. If it glows, it stays. Everything is either on or off.

What I keep searching for in movies, more and more, is the right gravity.

I suppose an artist takes the elements of his life and rearranges them and then has them perceived by others as though they were the elements of their lives.

Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.

I don't know anything about this engagement stuff. I never thought I was going to get engaged.