If we can use technology to shorten the path between intention and action, that excites me.

One thing you learn from surfing is how to operate in the present. It's really what the surfing experience is all about.

Everyone gets caught inside when surfing. You have 2 options. Give up or paddle outside. Life is the same. Keep paddling!

I think I'm getting wealthy in ways that don't count at the bank.

Waves keep coming, that's the one thing you can count on in life

The first time you get a ride on a surf board and you are being propelled along by a wave, it’s probably as close as humans can get to being able to fly like a bird

Surfing is a deeply wonderful thing – anytime, anywhere and any way

Surfing is attitude dancing.

It's a cakewalk, when you know how.

What gods do you pray to?

I don't believe in lowest common denominators. Our focus has been on delivering value. We're rarely going to be the cheapest theater in a market. We strive to be the best.

His mother stood before him like a monument. He saw her great outline through the blur of his weakness and his passion. She made no movement at all.

Everyone has a life purpose, and the key to your life purpose is following your passion, which consumes a lot of time.

I am one who finds within me a nobility that spurns the idle pratings of the great, and their mean boasts of what their fathers were, while they themselves are fools effeminate.

It is my belief no man ever understands quite his own artful dodges to escape from the grim shadow of self knowledge.

I always thought Cheers ended well. You always anticipate that the characters, theough they're leaving television, will somehow go on in another world of the imagination, which I think is good.

If you want to save America, get America saved.

America is less safe today than it was the day that Barack Obama became President of the United States. It's absolutely inarguable.

Come into my life, here where nothing matters. Come into my life, roll away the gloom.

The message of Islam asks you to be intellectually, spiritually, socially, and politically independent

Dedication: For librarians and booksellers everywhere, who gather books and build shelters for tender souls.