I don't know how long I'll be competing but I'll always be surfing. I'll be surfing until I'm old.

I don't need easy, I just need possible.

Courage doesn't mean you don't get afraid. Courage means you don't let fear stop you.

People can do whatever they want if they just set their heart to it, and just never give up, and just go out there and do it.

Life is a lot like surfing… When you get caught in the impact zone, you’ve got to just get back up. Because you never know what may be over the next wave.

Life is full of what-ifs. You can’t let it hold you back. If you do, you’re not really living at all… just kind of going through the motions with no meaning

Love is bigger then a tsunami, stronger then any fear.

Being creative on the waves is challenging, but we each create art in our own way.

Courage, sacrifice, determination, commitment, toughness, heart, talent, guts. That's what little girls are made of; the heck with sugar and spice.

We all go through rough times. We have those obstacles that seem too large to overcome or that current that you never seem to swim out of. We have to decide what matters most to us - our passions.

My strength came from my relationship with Christ and from the love and encouragement of my family and friends.

To my faithful readers, because a book is like a pie—the only thing more satisfying than cooking up the story is knowing that somebody might be out there eating it up with a spoon.

It's nice to believe that when confronted with facts people will just suddenly respond to them but, in fact, most people don't really work like that.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Better use has been made of association and this powerful instrument of action has been applied for more varied aims in America than anywhere else in the world.

We all have a Wonder Woman inside us.

Spreading Christianity abroad is sometimes an excuse for not having it at home.

Companies often become victims of their own mythologies.

Succotash my cocker spaniel, you fudging crevasse-hole dipshiitake!

My function as a writer is not story-telling but truth-telling: to make things plain.

There is a life-force within your soul, seek that life.