I will catch a wave every day, even in my mind.

Surfing teaches patience . On land, surfers cannot will a swell to appear. They have to wait for nature to make the call. So surfers wait . They keep their eyes on the horizon and they wait.

Surfing is all about uncertainty. That feeling of taking a risk, that leap of faith every time I jump into the ocean, that paddle out among things unseen — all of these make surfing very special

The energy that moves across the ocean connects all surfers who ride it.

One word defines the essence of surfing better for me than any other — stoke . One of the best things about stoke is that you can pass it along to someone who has never heard the expression.

All surfers are joined by one ocean.

You can’t undo the past, but you can remedy it by creating a better future.

I was the best man at the wedding. So why is she marrying him?

If nowhere else, in the relation between Church and State, "good fences make good neighbors."

My life is a series of things that just happen.

Community is not an ideal; it is people. It is you and I. In community we are called to love people just as they are with their wounds and their gifts, not as we want them to be.

But as for me: I must ask the wounded man where he is hurt, because I cannot become the wounded man. The only wounded man I can be is me.

Looking at you has been my favorite pastime from the moment you asked me to describe your face," he said solemnly, looking straight into her eyes.

The more people come out, the less it will be an issue.

Bolts are the murder of the impossible.

The dreams of yesterday are the hopes of today and the reality of tomorrow.