Deep assignments run through all our lives; there are no coincidences.

I am an underwater explorer, not a treasure hunter.

The greatest discoveries all start with the question "Why?"

It is a quiet and peaceful place - and a fitting place for the remains of this greatest of sea tragedies to rest.

The advanced societies of the future will not be governed by reason. They will be driven by irrationality, by competing systems of psychopathology.

Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.

Fiction is a branch of neurology: the scenarios of nerve and blood vessels are the written mythologies of memory and desire.

Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.

I surely know that there is no role in life more essential and more eternal than that of motherhood.

Be impatient. All things don't come to those who wait. Push on with what you believe because life is very short.

Sooner or later, all games become serious.

Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.

I cannot kill someone, he thought.

A man is usually more careful of his money than he is of his principles.

Sometimes I think that just not thinking of oneself is a form of prayer. . .

It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.

Those who devote their lives to serving our country, children, and neighborhoods are giving back. They have answered the call to serve.

Once you feel grateful, you are in an energy that can create miracles.

I had to pretend to drown. I was underwater, which is scary, and I'm not afraid of water, but people do die underwater.

Some of the worst elements of Guyland rest on the twin pillars of men's silence and women's compliance.

All religions begin with the cry Help.