I just love being on the ocean and being creative on the waves and the feeling you get when you're surfing. All around it's beautiful and fun.

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.

An intelligent person has knowledge, but a wise person has experience with humility.

A tree doesn't make a thunderstorm, but any fool knows where lighting´s going to strike".

I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.

The ability to grow is directly related to the amount of insecurity you can take in your life.

The railroad originally was as completely dissociated from steam propulsion as was the ship

There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure-all your life.

If we had less statemanship we could get along with fewer battleships.

I really reject that kind of comparison that says, Oh, he is the best. This is the second best. There is no such thing.

People with high levels of personal mastery...cannot afford to choose between reason and intuition, or head and heart, any more than they would choose to walk on one leg or see with one eye.

I am an optimist by nature and believe strongly that technology can be brought to bear to create alternatives, even in crisis situations.