Fortunately, I was given an incredible foundation from my independent mother. She showed me what was possible from a strong, loving woman.

Make sure your worst enemy doesn't live between your two ears.

The biggest sin in the world would be if I lost my love for the ocean.

Exercising underwater also creates tremendous benefits by challenging your body in ways you can't on dry land.

If you just get out of your own way... It is amazing what will come to you.

People always ask me when they see me working out, "What are you training for?" The answer is I'm training for life.

Surfing's one of the few sports that you look ahead to see what's behind.

Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!

I don't want to not live because of my fear of what could happen.

I know that if I scare myself once a day, I'm a better person.

Most men need their wives to need them, and I've seen that lead to their downfall

I had always been a boy in this place, and many of the trees and rocks and streams had been old men when I knew them. Some had died. All had changed. I knew that. I had changed the most.

Hope of ill gain is the beginning of loss.

A human being isn't meant to be some kind of machine designed only for production. No. Human life isn't just for work.

The 'kingdom of heaven is within,' indeed, but we must also create one without, because we are intended to act upon our circumstances.

Doubtless a great anguish may do the work of years, and we may come out from that baptism of fire with a soul full of new awe and new pity.

I am very comfortable with the strategic decisions that I made.

Climate change is new and complex. We don't have all the answers.

Godly character flows out of devotion to God and practically confirms the reality of that devotion.

Revolutions are brought about by men, by men who think as men of action and act as men of thought.

Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.