I need a big wave to really excel. The smaller stuff is a bit like...ballet for me.

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

When the time is right, life will have a meaning.When the time is right, world will be bright again.When the time is right, things will fall into place.Just remember, never regret.

What must be shall be and that which is a necessity to him that struggles is little more than choice to him that is willing.

I continue to be fascinated by the fact that feelings are not just the shady side of reason but that they help us to reach decisions as well.

Praise your kids. Inspire and motivate your players with praise. Ten years from now it won't matter what your record was. Will your kids love you or hate you?

If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.

And so I’ll let you go, and let it be. Whatever

The Arab world also won the Nobel with me. I believe that international doors have opened, and that from now on, literate people will consider Arab literature also. We deserve that recognition.

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

Each human being has the right to seek out joy, joy being understood as something which makes one content - not necessarily that which makes others content.

I have basset hounds. I have four now, I've had more in the past, and I relate to them because physically we're similar, in that they have very short legs and kind of long torsos, and I do as well.