Death is not a stalker, always looking for us. Death is a scorekeeper tallying up how much we love life and how much we are willing to work for it. We die when we stop living.

It's easier to die when you have lived, than it is to die when you haven't. So I say to all young people, go make memories; beautiful memories. Because when the time comes to go, you won't go alone.

Big wave surfers are human beings that have powers. They are men of enormous gentility.

Health is a presence of a superior state of wellbeing, a vigor, a vitality, a pizzazz you have to work for every single day of your life.

I don't see myself as legendary. If you want a legend, talk about someone like Duke Kahanamoku.

It's easier to die when you have lived than it is to die when you haven't.

The reason he [Duke Kahanamouku] didn't like me was that I liked him too much.

There is a wisdom in the wave - high-born, beautiful - for those who would but paddle out.

The greatest thing in life is health.

I love to be called Doc.

Wisdom comes from intent, experience, and finding courage.

We should totally rely on God, then our success will always be stable and nothing would be able to shake it

Getting caught up in someone else's dream is like a drug. Sometimes you have to go cold turkey.

The greatest success is to live the life of your dreams.

I do not believe in the immortality of the individual, and I consider ethics to be an exclusively human concern without any superhuman authority behind it.

To be married to Christ is to be meshed with him

Are cats strange animals or do they so resemble us that we find them curious as we do monkeys?

Man is to be understood only in his relationship to God.

We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence.

Build castles, don't dig graves.

Overall my race hasn't been a problem. I'm a black artist with white skin. At the end of the day you have to sing what's in your own soul.