I am a rolling stone, never in one place for very long.

Be mindful of the link between present action and desired future outcome. Ask yourself: if I repeat today’s actions 365 times, will I be where I want to be in a year?

Compared with the awesome might and eternal power of the ocean, no human being can fail to be reminded of their own insignificance.

The bigger the challenge, the bigger the sense of accomplishment when you get to the end of it.

I don't own designer clothes, or a sports car, or a huge house, but I am seeing the world, experiencing amazing things, and I have become an environmental campaigner.

My advice is don't keep asking yourself if you can do something. Just get out there and do it. You can really surprise yourself.

I have learned to acknowledge and appreciate the 98% that I have achieved instead of the 2% that I didn't.

Ocean rowing is very much what you make it. Rowing technique is pretty irrelevant on the ocean. It's the psychology that's important.

It's amazing how resourceful you can become when you're in the middle of the ocean and there's only one way to get to the other side.

I just used to have a really normal life, working in an office.

I'm not claiming to be anything out of the ordinary. I am not especially big or strong or brave or intrepid.

Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.

Such truth, as opposeth no man's profit, nor pleasure, is to all men welcome.

I think following my instinct has proven to lead me in the right direction, and it's hard to hear sometimes, because it's a noisy world and there's a lot of people talking to you.

Peace ... is a morbid condition, due to a surplus of civilians, which war seeks to remedy.

Scientology is probably the most stigmatized religion in America already.

I make myself laugh all the time. I think I'm really funny. I do.

Blind is not the situation when people cannot see others but when people fail to feel or sense the existence of others

I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.

It is right to submit to a higher authority whenever a command of God would be violated.

To get others to come into our ways of thinking, we must go over to theirs; and it is necessary to follow, in order to lead.