Being able to turn to Jesus after the shark attack kept me alive.

I don't need easy, I just need possible.

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

Life is full of what-ifs. You can’t let it hold you back. If you do, you’re not really living at all… just kind of going through the motions with no meaning

Love is bigger then a tsunami, stronger then any fear.

Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions.

My strength came from my relationship with Christ and from the love and encouragement of my family and friends.

Happiness has no book value, but life has no value if there is no happiness.

Being in prison for seven years was like being in an army that never drilled, never deployed, and only fought itself.

You can learn as much about the history from reading about the present as you can vice versa, that is learning about the present through history, which is what I do for a living.

Denial, panic, threats, anger - those are very human responses to feeling guilt.

The hankering of the mind is irresistible.

I don't support violence, period.

Everything ends. But there are always new beginnings.

The American army between world wars after World War I had virtually disintegrated. It was a very small force, given largely to practicing cavalry charges on western outposts.

Green Day is politically brain-dead but I love the little monkeys.

There's only one boss in your life . . . and that's you! The person looking back in the mirror at you is the one you have to answer to every day.