Being afreaid proves you're alive and awake.

There is nowhere else I'd rather be, nothing else I would prefer to be doing. I am at the beach looking west with the continent behind me as the sun tracks down to the sea. I have my bearings.

The ocean is a supreme metaphor for change. I expect the unexpected but am never fully prepared.

It's the pointless things that give your life meaning. Friendship, compassion, art, love. All of them pointless. But they're what keeps life from being meaningless.

For every moment the sea is peace and relief, there is another when it shivers and stirs to become chaos. It's just as ready to claim as it is to offer.

We rise to a challenge and set a course. We take a decision. You put your mind to something. Just deciding to do it gets you halfway there. Daring to try.

The desert is a spiritual place, we vaguely understand, and the sea the mere playground of our hedonism.

I came home at dusk with my ears ringing from the quiet.

Overfishing is an obvious threat to our capacity to feed ourselves.

It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

People do change - individuals, families, nations - and the pace of transformation need not be geological.

After seven days of fasten so it was, that the thoughts of my heart were very grievous unto me- and my soul recovered the spirit of understanding.

Laugh to be refreshed, discover to be surprised, accept and celebrate differences to be happy

If everything is energy, which it is - then everything is because of energy.

Democracy is an objective. Democratization is a process. Democratization serves the cause of peace because it offers the possibility of justice and of progressive change without force.

Begin with an individual, and before you know it you find that you have created a type; begin with a type, and you find that you have created - nothing.

Self-control is completely necessary for increasing and raising your attention level. One of the places you practice that is at work.

We are addicted to money and our obsession with it is leading to the destruction of our planet.

Too much success can ruin you as surely as too much failure.

Make the Sabbath a delight by rendering service to others.

You know, you've got to be careful with how you educate your kids in rock'n'roll fashion.